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Style: Ashcan School
Fred Nagler, (Sheep under a Tree)
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...
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1920s Ashcan School Art

Materials

Etching

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

James Penney, Point of Order
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

Fred Nagler, (Crucifixion)
Located in New York, NY
The etching (Crucifixion) is signed and titled in pencil. Signed 'Fred' and possibly dated '27' in the image at lower left. It's in an usually spare drawing style but one that Nagl...
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1920s Ashcan School Art

Materials

Etching

New Year’s Eve and Adam
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...
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1910s Ashcan School Art

Materials

Etching

John W. Gregory, Approaching Night, Atwood Avenue, Provincetown, MA
Located in New York, NY
Gregory worked mostly in lithography, probably learned at the Art Students League in New York City. However he often drew New England subjects, so this evening Provincetown scene is ...
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1930s 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

Head of a Woman (Margaret)
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...
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1920s Ashcan School Art

Materials

Conté

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

Harry Wickey, Stallion and Mare
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

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

Fred Nagler, Harlem River (New York City)
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. ...
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1920s Ashcan School Art

Materials

Etching

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

'The Sixth Avenue Spur, New York City '— 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...
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1920s Ashcan School Art

Materials

Lithograph

Ann Nooney, (New York City Scene)
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

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

Fred Nagler, (Road to Calvary)
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...
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1920s Ashcan School Art

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Etching

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...
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1910s Ashcan School Art

Materials

Oil

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

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

Fulton St. Fish Market, Crating (NYC)
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

Norman Barr, Coney Island (New York City)
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

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

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

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

Battle Scene, Spanish American War
Located in Greenwich, CT
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

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

Norman Barr, Still Life
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

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

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

Ben Messick, Coffee and Donuts (Sinkers & Java)
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

Harry R. Rein, Competition, 1936-39, WPA linocut
Located in New York, NY
If ever there was an image that fit the description of 'Ashcan,' Harry Rein's Competition, made for the NYC WPA, is clearly it! Some impressions have the WPA sstamp, including the o...
Category

1930s Ashcan School Art

Materials

Linocut

Untitled (Woman in Stockings), Standing Female Nude on reverse, double sided
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Conte crayon on paper, c. 1905-1909 Signed lower right Archival frame by Graham Gallery, New York, hand carved frame with silk matting and gold fillet (see photo of corner) Provenanc...
Category

Early 1900s Ashcan School Art

Materials

Chalk

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

"Westminster Abbey, " complete portfolio of 13 etchings 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

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

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...
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Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Art

Materials

Etching

”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

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

Harry Wickey, Snug Harbor (Riverside Drive, NYC)
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

Norman Barr, Farm, North Bronx (NYC)
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

James Penney, Police Station, Lawrence, Kansas
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

Irving Guyer, Sleepers
Located in New York, NY
Classic American Depression-Era subject meets the French landscape? Clearly the Guyer was looking at both Jean-Francois Millet and Vincent Van Gogh, who together informed this image....
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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

Boys Sledding
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...
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1920s Ashcan School Art

Materials

Etching

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

James Penney, Test Stone, Touche
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...
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1930s Ashcan School Art

Materials

Lithograph

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

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Etching

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

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...
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1930s 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

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, Central Park (NYC) (Also titled Park -- Spring)
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

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...
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1930s 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...
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1930s Ashcan School Art

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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...
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Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Art

Materials

Lithograph

SHINE, WASHINGTON SQUARE
Located in Portland, ME
Sloan, John. SHINE, WASHINGTON SQUARE. Morse 206. Etching, 1923. Signed, titled and inscribed "100 proofs," and further inscribed "Peter Platt imp." Morse says that 80 were print...
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1920s Ashcan School Art

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Etching

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...
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Mid-20th Century Ashcan School Art

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Watercolor

"The Row at the Picnic, " Original Black and White Etching 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...
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Early 1900s Ashcan School Art

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Etching

Barbershop
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 ...
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1910s Ashcan School Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

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