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Style: Ashcan School
Ben Messick, Coffee and Donuts (Sinkers & Java)
By Ben Messick
Located in New York, NY
Ben Messick perfectly captures the world of the 'Ashcan' period: Everyday life, local characters, people we could still meet today. He could draw like a son-of-a-gun! The date of 194...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Art
Materials
Lithograph
Alexander Kachinsky, Graphite Factory
Located in New York, NY
Russian-born and European-educated Alexander Kachinsky was a designer of stage sets (for the Ballet Russe), furniture, and commercial interiors. His prints are in the collection of t...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Art
Materials
Etching
The Sixth Avenue Spur, New York City — 1920s American Expressionism
By Frederick K. Detwiller
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Frederick K. Detwiller, 'The Sixth Avenue Spur, New York City', lithograph, 1924, edition 20. Signed, dated, titled, and annotated 'Lith 20' in pencil. Inscribed 'To my Friend Herbert L. Jones' in pencil. Signed and dated, in the stone, lower right; initialed and dated '1927' in the stone, lower left. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, with margins (7/8 to 1 1/4 inches); slight toning in the top left sheet edge, otherwise in good condition. Scarce.
Image size 20 1/2 x 14 inches (521 x 356 mm); sheet size 22 1/2 x 16 inches (572 x 406 mm). Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed.
ABOUT THE IMAGE
The Sixth Avenue El was constructed in the late 1870s by the Gilbert Elevated Railway and reorganized as the Metropolitan Elevated Railway. By 1878, it was running from Rector Street to 58th Street. Soon after that, it was taken over by the Manhattan Railway Company, with three other Manhattan elevated train lines. The company built a connection, the ‘spur’ by which it turned west on 53rd Street to merge with the 9th Avenue El—paralleling the present-day route of the 6th Avenue subway.
The Sixth Avenue El served the “Ladies Mile” shops (including the Siegel-Cooper emporium, whose building now houses Bed...
Category
1920s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Lithograph
"The Ferry No. 2, " Charles Harsanyi, Modern, Large WPA Ashcan Landscape Scene
By Charles E. Harsanyi
Located in New York, NY
Charles E. Harsanyi (1905 - 1973)
The Ferry No. 2, 1946
Oil on canvas
40 x 52 inches
Signed, titled and dated on the reverse
Provenance:
The artist
Grand Central Art Galleries, New York
Private Collection, New York
Kappell Gallery, Greenport, New York
Private Collection, Long Island, circa 2002
Exhibited:
New York, Grand Central Art Galleries, Critics' Show, December 10 - 21, 1946.
Charles E. Harsanyi was born in Tapolcza, Hungary in 1905. He studied at the Royal Academy in Budapest, Hungary with A. Bankhard from 1923 to 1928. Nineteen years later, in 1947, Harsanyi moved to the U. S., settling in Jackson Heights, New York.
The painter and drawing specialist became a member of numerous prestigious art clubs including the Salmagundi Club, The Society of Independent Artists and the Allied Artists of America. Harsanyi served as an awards director and chairman of admissions for the Audubon Artists Association during the 1950s. Later in life after living in Stephentown, New York and Cape Coral...
Category
1940s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Portland Harbor, Maine, " Alexander Bower, Snowy River Scene in Winter
Located in New York, NY
Alexander Bower (1875 - 1952)
Portland Harbor, Maine, 1910
Oil on canvas
27 x 33 inches
Signed and dated lower right
An American Impressionist, Alexande Bower was born in New York, studied at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and was living with his wife in Cliff Island, Maine by 1914. Despite his urban upbringing, the coast and the sea fascinated Bower. A large portion of his paintings are seascapes, particularly scenes depicting the coast of Cape Elizabeth...
Category
1910s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Study of an Indian Model
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Study of an Indian Model
Unsigned
Pastel and chalk on blue paper, mounted to support
Provenance:
Estate of the artist (per Graham and Sons, agent f...
Category
1920s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Chalk, Pastel
"Flower Girl, " John George Brown, Genre Painting, Street Figure
Located in New York, NY
John George Brown (1831 - 1913)
Flower Girl, circa 1900
Watercolor on paper
6 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches
Signed lower left
Period Hand Carved Foster Brothers Fram...
Category
Early 1900s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Little Zipper, whimsical fun graphic black & white parachute jump text skull
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Linocut graphic print with text
9/10 and 10/10 limited edition 10 10
Philomena Marano has spent decades “penetrat[ing] the soul of Coney Island to reveal its twin promises of candy-colored paradise and garishly ornate nightmare,” as Ann Aptaker describes, through the prints and cut-paper collage in her “American Dream-land” series (1979-). These colorful, graphic style works evoke the energy and amusement of Coney Island through depictions of the rides, the boardwalk, clowns, and food vendors.
Ms. Marano is a daughter of Brooklyn. She holds a BFA from Pratt Institute, is an intimate of the visual poetry of Coney Island, created the winning poster for the first Spirit of Brooklyn poster...
Category
1980s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Linocut, Rice Paper
John W. Gregory, North End Street Scene (Boston)
Located in New York, NY
Boston's North End is a charming Italian neighborhood with small buildings and twisting streets. The artist, John W. Gregory, captures the feeling of a pleasant afternoon visiting th...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Jazz Club"
By Jane Gibbs
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed Lower Left
Category
20th Century Ashcan School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mal's (At Cliff Evan's Cabin)
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
Mal's (At Cliff Evan's Cabin), by Waldo Midgley. watercolor, 9 x 12 inches (Framed size: 18.5 x 21 inches), $1,500
Waldo Midgley (1888-1986) had a fruit...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Art
Materials
Watercolor
Ben Messick, (The Newspaper Story)
By Ben Messick
Located in New York, NY
Ben Messick perfectly captures the world of the 'Ashcan' period: Everyday life, local characters, people we could still meet today. He could draw like a son-of-a-gun! And this is a v...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Art
Materials
Lithograph
Norman Barr, Coney Island (large), 1940
By Norman Barr
Located in New York, NY
Norman Barr recorded his beloved New York City from the Bronx, to Coney Island, to the Fulton Fish Market.
In this period he was on the New Deal's Mural ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Art
Materials
Crayon, India Ink
William Gropper, (Choral Group)
Located in New York, NY
An early serigraph (screen print) by William Gropper. There's a harpist to provide the music and a choir master conducting. The seated members of the group are individually drawn as ...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Screen
Don Freeman, (At the Booking Desk)
By Don Freeman
Located in New York, NY
Don Freeman is best known for his paintings and works on paper of New York City's theatre industry: the signage, the stages and sets, the actors, the costumers and ushers, anything a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Art
Materials
Lithograph
Bernard Schardt, Appeal Denied (NYC Courtroom)
Located in New York, NY
Bernard Schardt worked on the the WPA in NYC during the Depression. (During this period, off and on, he lived with friend and colleague Jackson Pollock...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Intaglio
Harry Wickey, Stallion and Mare
By Harry Wickey
Located in New York, NY
Also a sculptor, Harry Wickey was a master printmaker and Art Students League teacher.
This rural scene pre-dates the much better known, very close subject, John Steuart Curry's li...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Lithograph
Norman Barr, Fulton St. Fish Market (NYC)
By Norman Barr
Located in New York, NY
Norman Barr recorded his beloved New York City from the Bronx, to Coney Island, to the Fulton Fish Market.
Although Barr was on the Mural Project of the ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Art
Materials
Lithograph
Forest Landscape
By George Luks
Located in New York, NY
Landscape by George Luks (1867-1933)
Oil on canvas
11 x 14 inches unframed (27.94 x 35.56 cm)
Signed lower left
Description:
George Luks was an American artist originally born in Pe...
Category
20th Century Ashcan School Art
Materials
Oil
Untitled (Woman Removing Her Stockings)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Woman Removing Her Stockings)
Conte crayon on paper. c. 1905
Signed lower right: E Shinn
Provenance:
James Graham & Sons, New York (labels)
Ronald C....
Category
Early 1900s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Conté
Norman Barr, Farm, North Bronx (NYC)
By Norman Barr
Located in New York, NY
Norman Barr recorded his beloved New York City from the Bronx, to Coney Island, to the Fulton Fish Market.
In this period he was on the New Deal's Mural ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Art
Materials
Crayon, India Ink
Emma and Marjorie on a Sofa
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Emma and Marjorie on a Sofa
Lithograph printed on chine paper, 1921
Signed by the artist lower right (see photo)
Signed by the printer Bolton Brown lower left (see photo)
Edition: 44...
Category
1920s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Lithograph
Charles Pont, Splicing
Located in New York, NY
An old sailor is shown at work on a what must be a huge sailing vessel. He's splicing, or joining ropes together -- probably still a useful skill in the mi...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Woodcut
South Spring Wind - Voice of Persephone
Located in Fairlawn, OH
South Spring Wind - Voice of Persephone
Sanguine on paper heightened with white gouache over the entire sheet
Signed lower left
An important work on paper by the artist with extensive exhibition history (see labels). The artist used the theme of Persephone in paintings, drawings and prints.
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 17 1/2 x 13 5/8 inches
Housed in an 8 ply rag mat
Provenance: Mildred Davies (the artist's widow)
Feragil Gallery, New York (label)
Montrsoe Gallery, New York (label)
FAR Gallery, New York (label)
Biography
Arthur B. Davies’s mystical, mysterious paintings hearken back to 19th-century romanticism, even while Davies aligned himself with American artists advancing the most radical ideals of their day. Davies was born on September 26, 1862, in Utica, New York, the son of English and Welsh parents who had immigrated to the United States in 1856. He first took art lessons as a teenager from a local landscape painter, Dwight Williams...
Category
1920s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Gouache
Fulton St. Fish Market, Crating (NYC)
By Norman Barr
Located in New York, NY
Born in Czarist Russia Norman Barr (1908-1994) came to New York as a young boy and except for a few night classes at the school of the National Academy of ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Art
Materials
India Ink
Ann Michalov, A View of the Park
Located in New York, NY
Originally from Illinois, Ann Michalov worked in Spokane, Seattle and Portland, where she finally settled. This lithograph however really looks very like New York City's Central Park...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Lithograph
Paul Gattuso, (Young Woman)
Located in New York, NY
Paul Gattuso attended the Art Students League and worked primarily in New York City. There is an old address with a Bronx, Grand Concourse address.
Gattus...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Monotype
Standing Female Nude
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Standing Female Nude
Oil on canvas, c. 1910
Signed lower left corner (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Housed in a 22K Gold Leaf ...
Category
1910s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Oil
Paul Gattuso, (Italian Street Scene)
Located in New York, NY
Paul Gattuso attended the Art Students League and worked primarily in New York City. There is an old address with a Bronx, Grand Concourse address.
Gattus...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Monotype
'Hurdy Gurdy Ballet' — 1920s New York — American Scene
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Glenn O. Coleman, 'Hurdy Gurdy Ballet', lithograph 1928, edition 50. Signed, dated, and numbered '14/50' in pencil.
Titled in the bottom left margin, in a...
Category
1920s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Lithograph
Room for One More (New York City Subway)
By Irving Guyer
Located in New York, NY
This Depression-era New York City subway scene says it all. The body language of all five passengers tells us where each of them is in his or her ...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Ray Euffa, Keys
Located in New York, NY
Russia-born Ray Euffa studied at the Detroit School of Fine Arts, the Educational Alliance Art School, and Art Students League in NYC. It is New York City i...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Art
Materials
Screen
Norman Barr, Coney Island (New York City)
By Norman Barr
Located in New York, NY
An idyllic scene at New York City's favorite beach, Coney Island. Before the year was over Barr was in the Army.
It is ink and litho-crayon. Barr liked that medium because it didn't ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Boy Blowing a Balloon
Located in Lawrence, NY
Estate Stamped
Exhibited: Provincetown Art Museum
Margery Ryerson was a pupil of Charles Hawthorne at the Cape School of Art in Provincetown, MA and with Ashcan artist...
Category
1920s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Oil
In the Style of Ashcan School Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Neat little mystery oil on canvas. A moody street and cafe scene. It is in the style of the Ashcan School. It measures 1 inches wide by 8 high and is unframed. I t does not appear to...
Category
1970s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Oil
Lawrence Beall Smith, Solitude
Located in New York, NY
Lawrence Beall Smith draws four men in a park, each with his back to a giant, strong tree. The year is 1938 and the country is coming out of the Depression but World War II is alread...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Art
Materials
Lithograph
D. Sidwell Feigin, Rain, Snow, and Time
Located in New York, NY
This lithograph shows the Obelisk (Cleopatra’s Needle), 1425 BCE, in Central Park, New York City, just behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art, on Greywacke Knoll. (This makes it a double example of ‘art about art.’) Carved from a single piece of granite from Aswan, it was gifted to this country by the Khedive Ismail Pasha...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Lithograph
Moses Oley, Quarry
Located in New York, NY
Moses Oley drew an industrial scene, but one very much in isolation. The quarry equipment looks both imposing and busy. There appears to be smoke coming fro...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Lithograph
Dorothy Varian, Witness
Located in New York, NY
Dorothy Varian (1895-1985) was based in New York City and Woodstock, NY. This is a courtroom scene that captures the intensity of the situation. It is s...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Art
Materials
Pencil
Harry Wickey, Snug Harbor (Riverside Drive, NYC)
By Harry Wickey
Located in New York, NY
The sailors are still in uniform in this post-World War I print of young people meeting at a semi-secluded park setting, Snug Harbor, along Riverside Drive...
Category
1920s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Drypoint
Lawrence Beall Smith, Seaside Nomads
Located in New York, NY
A perfect summer day. A young mother, little boy, and even smaller girl have their luncheon under a make shift 'fly' -- a stripped cloth canopy fixed up with poles. Although it is titled 'Seaside Nomads,' to me it has the look of a bay or inlet. It's relatively flat and there are all sorts of grasses, old...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Art
Materials
Lithograph
Joseph Hirsch, (Cutting the Beard)
Located in New York, NY
A man with lots of whiskers is trimming his facial hair while looking in a mirror. The male figure and his beard are carefully drawn but Hirsch has cleverly just briefly sketched in ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Art
Materials
Lithograph
Redman Dorgeloh, Octagon House (San Francisco, CA)
Located in New York, NY
This print was made in an edition of 25 for the California WPA. It is signed and titled in pencil. The artist's full name was Marguerite Redmond Dorgeloh and that is the way this pri...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Art
Materials
Lithograph
Sunday Best
Located in Lawrence, NY
Margery Ryerson was a pupil of Charles Hawthorne at the Cape School of Art in Provincetown, MA and with Robert Henri at the Art Students League in New York.
For a twenty-year perio...
Category
1920s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Oil
Joseph LeBoit, Derby Winner
Located in New York, NY
Joseph (Joe) Leboit made this extremely intense image of a supposedly happy recipient of a 'Derby Winner.' (Probably refers to the Irish Derby.) In fact the couple and seventeen chil...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Art
Materials
Lithograph
Fernando Castro Pacheco, Indian Mother and Child (Indigena con Nino -SP?)
Located in New York, NY
Fernando Castro Pacheco was a Mexican muralist, painter, and printmaker. This linocut is titled to refer to the indigenous population. It is si...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Art
Materials
Linocut
Louis Bouché, (Seated Woman)
By Louis Bouché
Located in New York, NY
Louis Bouché was based in New York and taught at the Art Students League. The figure, and nudes especially, were an important subject in his oeuvre. The d...
Category
Early 20th Century Ashcan School Art
Materials
Pencil
Seated Boy
Located in Lawrence, NY
Margery Ryerson was a pupil of Charles Hawthorne at the Cape School of Art in Provincetown, MA and with Ashcan artist Robert Henri at the Art Students L...
Category
1920s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Oil
Joseph Webster Golinkin, On the Dock, Banana Boat, New Orleans
Located in New York, NY
Chicago-born Golinkin studied at the Artist Students League with George Luks. After working as an illustrator for New York papers he joined the Navy in 1939 and retired as a Rear Adm...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Lithograph
Jane Rogers, Breakfast
Located in New York, NY
Jane Rogers was born in the artists' colony of Woodstock, New York. Most of her career was spent in New York. Although her dates are most often given as 18...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Art
Materials
Lithograph
Paul Gattuso, (Italian Street Scene - Light)
Located in New York, NY
Paul Gattuso attended the Art Students League and worked primarily in New York City. There is an old address with a Bronx, Grand Concourse address.
Gattus...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Monotype
Louis Bouché, (Standing Woman)
By Louis Bouché
Located in New York, NY
Louis Bouché was based in New York and taught at the Art Students League. The figure was an important subject in his oeuvre. An ink drawing on tan paper, ...
Category
Early 20th Century Ashcan School Art
Materials
Ink
Theresa Halat, (The Fox and The Dog)
Located in New York, NY
While nothing is known about this artist (maybe even the spelling of the last name?), the drawing is so skilled and the composition compelling that there MUST be other work! And use ...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Lithograph
James Penney, Street Pavers (New York City)
By James Penney
Located in New York, NY
James Penney was widely known for his New Yorker covers as well as his paintings and prints. This lithograph of male laborers, Street Pavers, remi...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Lithograph
Carrot Top
Located in Lawrence, NY
Margery Ryerson was a pupil of Charles Hawthorne at the Cape School of Art in Provincetown, MA and with Robert Henri at the Art Students League in New York.
For a twenty-year perio...
Category
1920s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Oil
Leonard Pytlak, The Bin (Industrial Landscape)
Located in New York, NY
This lithograph is signed and titled in pencil.
Category
1930s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Lithograph
John W. Gregory, Aquarium
Located in New York, NY
Gregory often worked in lithography, probably learned at the Art Students League in New York City. In all likelihood this is a New York scene but he also often drew New England subje...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Lithograph
Daniel in the Lions' Den
Located in New York, NY
Ukrainian-born, lower East Side based, Sarah Berman was active on the NYC-WPA and in artists' circles. Daniel in the Lions' Den is an etching, signed and ...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Etching
Ashcan School art for sale on 1stDibs.
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