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Style: Ashcan School
Head of a Woman (Margaret)
By Leon Kroll
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Head of a Woman (Margaret)
conte on wove paper, 1925
Signed and dated lower right
Annotated "Margaret" in ink verso
A portrait of Margaret Cassidy Manship ( d. 2012), daughter in law...
Category
1920s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Conté
Ann Nooney, (New York City Scene)
By Ann Nooney
Located in New York, NY
The dimensions are for the image; there are large margins. This lithograph is signed in pencil.
A native New Yorker, Ann Nooney (1900-1970) recorded the urban scene while on the Works Progress...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Lithograph
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
Sid Gotcliffe, Tompkins Square Park, about 1940
By Sid Gotcliffe
Located in New York, NY
British-born Sid Gotcliffe has made a powerfully poignant image in the lithograph Tompkins Square Park.
At the center sit three men dressed in black. Their clothes suggest they bel...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Art
Materials
Lithograph
New Year’s Eve and Adam
By John Sloan
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
John Sloan, 'New Year's Eve and Adam', etching, 1918, edition 100, (only 85 printed), Morse 190. Signed, titled and annotated '100 proofs' in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, l...
Category
1910s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Etching
Fred Nagler, (Sheep under a Tree)
By Fred Nagler
Located in New York, NY
The etching (Sheep under a Tree) is signed in pencil and annotated (in lower margin) '3rd State, 4 proofs, JN imp.' in pencil.
It's in an usually spare drawing style but one that Na...
Category
1920s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Etching
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
David Feinstein, Negro District, Brooklyn, 1936-39, WPA lithograph
Located in New York, NY
David Feinstein's Negro District, Brooklyn, a lithograph of 1936-39, is a marvel. It's a construction of every detail the artist could think of to show the nature of the locale: The ...
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
Leonard Pytlak, Side Street (New York City)
Located in New York, NY
This lithograph is signed in pencil.
Leonard Pytlak lived on the East Side of Manhattan and this image recalls the 59th Street Bridge (also known as the Queensboro Bridge and the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge), completed in 1909. It goes from Manhattan to Queens and passes over Roosevelt Island...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Lithograph
Barbershop
By John Sloan
Located in New York, NY
John Sloan (1871-1954), Barbershop, 1915, etching and aquatint, signed in pencil lower right, inscribed in pencil “For John Quinn, Esq. – John Sloan” lower left margin, (also signed ...
Category
1910s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
$12,000
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
Norman Barr, Still Life
By Norman Barr
Located in New York, NY
Norman Barr made mural on the NYC-WPA; this lithograph was made in the WPA workshop but was not published by the WPA. The next year he was in the Army! Thi...
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
"The Row at the Picnic, " Original Black and White Etching by John Sloan
By John Sloan
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Row at the Picnic" is an original etching by John Sloan. This piece depicts a fight that broke out in a park. There is a mass of people huddled together.
4 7/8" x 3 1/2" art
17...
Category
Early 1900s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Etching
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
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
James Penney, Point of Order
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.
Penney was from Saint Joseph, Missouri. He trained in NYC at the Art Students League. The New-York Historical Society and the Library of Congress both have collections of his work.
Signed, titled, and dated.
Especially like the test marks at the lower right and the way the lawyer is leaning/relaxing on the judge...
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
James Penney, Test Stone, Touche
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.
Penney was from Saint Joseph, Missouri. He trained in NYC at the Art Students League. The New-York Historical Society and the Library of Congress both have collections of his work.
Signed, titled, and dated, and annotated 'Test #1' in pencil.
Note entirely sure what's going on here...
Category
1930s 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
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
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
Under the Hollow
Located in Buffalo, NY
An important American modern landscape by Ashcan school artist Alexander O. Levy.
This painting was featured in the retrospective for the artist held at the Burchfield Penney Art Ce...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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 (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
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
”Admiring the Picture”
Located in Southampton, NY
Very well executed original gouache on archival paper by the well known American artist Benjamin Kopman. The scene depicts three figures admiring a picture. Signed lower left. Circa ...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Gouache, Archival Paper
$1,120 Sale Price
20% Off
Fred Nagler, Harlem River (New York City)
By Fred Nagler
Located in New York, NY
Massachusetts-born Fred Nagler studied at the Art Students League from 1914 to 1917, with George Bridgeman and Robert Henri, and eventually became a member of the Board of Control. ...
Category
1920s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Etching
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
Fred Nagler, (Road to Calvary)
By Fred Nagler
Located in New York, NY
The etching (Road to Calvary) is signed in pencil.
It's in an usually spare drawing style but one that Nagler did use occasionally. Here it emphasizes the meagerness of the scene. T...
Category
1920s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Etching
Alexander Kachinsky, Uptown, NYC
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
Lucile Haynes, (Two Women with Child in Baby Carriage)
Located in New York, NY
It's clear to me that that baby carriage is so beautifully drawn that it could be re-constructed from here if necessary.
Without really knowing anything about Lucile Haynes I'm sure...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Etching
Alexander Kachinsky, Cloudy Day
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 the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian American Art museum, and the Baltimore Museum of Art. He came to this country in the 1920s.
An impression of this subject in the Smithsonian.
"Cloudy Day," about 1940, is an idyllic country scene, possibly the artist's White Plains...
Category
Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Art
Materials
Etching
“The Maitre d’”
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is a comical take on the position of maitre d’. Unsigned. Framed in a new African mahogany frame. Overall measurements are 25.5 by 17.5 inches. Oil pain...
Category
1910s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Oil, Fiberboard
$1,480 Sale Price
20% Off
James Penney, Central Park (NYC) (Also titled Park -- Spring)
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 shares the happy joy of warm days in the park with people on benches and ...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Lithograph
Albert Abramovitz, The Wagonette (Moscow Subway)
Located in New York, NY
Albert Abramovitz was working in New York in the 1930s when he made wood engravings of the construction of the Moscow subway. This image, The Wagonette, is a wrenching testament to t...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Woodcut
E. Mario Grenville, Mail Time
Located in New York, NY
Mario Grenville made this print for the publishing program of Associated American Artists. It was issued in 1945 making it a calm antidote to the ending of World War II, although it ...
Category
1940s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Etching
red ballboy or Studies for "Tennis Tournament"
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Red Ballboy or Studies for "Tennis Tournament"
Crayon on paper, c. 1920
Unsigned
Condition: three vertical folds created by the artist to transport the drawing from the tennis match ...
Category
1910s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Graphite
Irving Guyer, Sleepers
By Irving Guyer
Located in New York, NY
Classic American Depression-Era subject meets the French landscape? Clearly Guyer was looking at both Jean-Francois Millet and Vincent Van Gogh, who together informed this image. And...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Etching
James Penney, Police Station, Lawrence, Kansas
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.
Penney was from Saint Joseph, Missouri. He trained in NYC at the Art Students League. Th...
Category
1920s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Linocut
Philip Evergood, (The New York Times)
Located in New York, NY
The ever-quirky Philip Evergood has composed a print that is at once a World War II image (The New York Times on the table has the headline 'Japs Bomb P...
Category
Mid-20th Century 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
Boys Sledding
By John Sloan
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Boys Sledding
Etching, 1920
Signed and titled in pencil by the artist below image (see photos)
Annotated in pencil by the artist "100 proofs"
Signed and dated in the plate lower left...
Category
1920s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Etching
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
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
Convalescent
Located in New York, NY
Mathilde de Cordoba was born in New York City and spent her career there. She is known for her studies of women and children.
Convalescent is sign...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Lithograph
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
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
Blanche Grambs, Waterfront, New York City
Located in New York, NY
Blanche Grambs, known to friends as 'Grambs' (1916-2010) was born in China. She came to New York as a very young woman to study at the Art Students Leag...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
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
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
Grant Arnold, Summer Landscape (probably Woodstock NY)
Located in New York, NY
Grant Arnold's Summer Landscape, made in 1936, in the depths of the Depression, is a study in peace and calm. It's as though he found a refuge from the wo...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Lithograph
Blanche Grambs, Unemployed
Located in New York, NY
Blanche Grambs, known to friends as 'Grambs' (1916-2010) was born in China. She came to New York as a very young woman to study at the Art Students Leag...
Category
1930s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Etching
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 extensiv...
Category
1920s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Gouache
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 Frame
Canvas size: 24 x 18 1/8 inche...
Category
1910s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Oil
"Westminster Abbey, " complete portfolio of 13 etchings by John Sloan
By John Sloan
Located in Milwaukee, WI
John Sloan's Westminster Abbey portfolio is among the most rare of his printmaking output, and a complete set like this is even more unusual. Etched in dark brown ink in on a sturdy ...
Category
1890s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Etching, Paper
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 for the estate)
James Graham & Sons,...
Category
1920s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Chalk, Pastel
Battle Scene, Spanish American War
Located in New York, NY
Francis Luis Mora was considered one of America's finest "sketchers". A collection of his Sketchbooks are at the Smithsonian and this work came out of one in the early 1990's from t...
Category
1890s Ashcan School Art
Materials
Graphite
$1,040 Sale Price
20% Off
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
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