Ashcan Artists (The Eight)
(above: Ashcan School artists and friends at John Sloan's Philadelphia Studio, 1898)
Introduction
This section of the Traditional Fine Arts Organization (TFAO) catalogue Topics in American Art is devoted to the topic "Ashcan Artists (The Eight)." Articles and essays specific to this topic published in TFAO's Resource Library are listed at the beginning of the section. Clicking on titles takes readers directly to these articles and essays. The date at the end of each title is the Resource Library publication date.
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Articles and essays from Resource Library in chronological order
The Barbara Belgrade Spargo Collection: Facets of Modernity (1900-1950) (3/12/12)
The Eight and American Modernisms (3/17/09)
Painters of American Life: The Eight (11/12/08)
The Eight; essay by Frank H. Goodyear Jr (8/1/08)
Life's Pleasures: The Ashcan School's Brush with Leisure, 1895-1925 (3/20/08)
Pride in Place: Landscapes by The Eight in Southern Collections (8/4/00)
Pride in Place: Landscapes by the Eight in Southern Collections (6/17/00)
Pride in Place: Landscapes by The Eight in Southern Collections (3/31/00)
Pride in Place: Landscapes by The Eight in Southern Collections (1/16/00)
for George Bellows
The Powerful Hand of George Bellows: Drawings from the Boston Public Library (4/29/08)
Leaving for the Country: George Bellows at Woodstock (10/2/03)
George Bellows: The Tragedies of War (8/9/03)
George Bellows in Newport and Beyond (5/24/00)
The Woodstock Art Colony (6/15/99)
George Bellows: The War Series (1/16/99)
An American Pulse: The Lithographs of George Wesley Bellows (1/99)
George Bellows: Love of Winter (12/6/97)
also see this online video
May, 2023 screenshot via Google video search:
for Arthur Davies
Arthur B. Davies: Dweller on the Threshold; essay by Randall Suffolk (6/22/01)
for William Glackens
An Intimate Look at William Glackens and The Eight (4/26/11)
The Spectacle of Life: The Art of William Glackens; essay by Jorge H. Santis (7/22/09)
for Robert Henri:
The Portraits of Robert Henri: Context and Influences; article by Valerie Ann Leeds (8/2/05)
Robert Henri and the 1915 San Diego Exposition; essay by Jean Stern (1/27/05)
Robert Henri and His Influence (11/19/02)
San Diego Beginnings, essay by Martin E. Petersen (7/6/01)
Robert Henri: American Icon; essay by Valerie Ann Leeds (5/11/01)
Robert Henri: The Early Years; essay by Bennard Perlman (5/10/01)
Robert Henri and His Circle: Selections from the Permanent Collection (1//17/99)
also see these online videos
May, 2023 screenshot via Google video search:
Robert Henri and the Art Spirit, a 1990 28-minute video from EPN.
for Rockwell Kent
In Review: The Prints of Rockwell Kent: A Catalogue Raisonné, essay by Scott R. Ferris (8/18/05)
Rockwell Kent: The Mythic and the Modern (4/4/05)
An Eye for Maine: Paintings from a Private Collection; essay by Donelson Hooopes (11/30/04)
Seeing Red: Rockwell Kent and the Farnsworth Art Museum; article by Victoria K. Woodhull (9/3/04)
Generations: The Artistic Heritage of Rockwell Kent, essay by Scott R. Ferris (11/18/02)
Distant Shores: The Odyssey of Rockwell Kent (5/26/00)
The View from Asgaard: Rockwell Kent's Adirondack Legacy (4/9/99) revised (1/19/00)
One Hundred Years of Maine at Work
for Walt Kuhn:
Walt Kuhn: An Imaginary History of the West (11/6/99)
for George Luks
George Luks: The Watercolors Rediscovered; essay by Judith Hansen O'Toole (11/24/08)
George Luks : An Artistic Legacy; essay by Judith Hansen O'Toole (4/19/01)
for Maurice Prendergast:
for John Sloan:
Seeing the City: Sloan's New York (11/7/08)
Seeing the City: Sloan's New York (11/3/07)
Urban American Scenes: Works by John Sloan, Isabel Bishop and Jacob Lawrence (4/1/04)
The Gist of Drawings: Works on Paper by John Sloan (11/3/00)
John Sloan's Etchings: Imagination, Invention, and a Passion for "Needling In" (3/2/00)
also see this online video
May, 2023 screenshot via Google video search:
for Eugene Speicher:
Eugene Speicher: An Artist Reconsidered (9/22/03)
Topical online videos
May, 2023 screenshots via Google video search:
Also from the Web
The Ashcan School - New York City, 1908 to C.1913, from Artcyclopedia.com. Accessed July, 2015
"The Ashcan School" by H. Barbara Weinberg, Department of American Paintings and Sculpture, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Accessed July, 2015
Ashcan School from Art Story Foundation. Accessed July, 2015
The Ashcan School from Wikipedia. Accessed July, 2015
George Bellows, an exhibit held November 15, 2012 - February 18, 2013 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Accessed February, 2015.
George Bellows, an exhibit held June 10 - October 8, 2012 at the National Gallery of Art. Includes two-part online film and audio from symposium. Accessed March, 2015.
George Bellows: A Ringside Seat, an exhibit held September 5 - December 10, 2006 at the Mead Art Museum. Accessed February, 2015
Jerome Myers: Raising Hope in the New World is a 2014 exhibit at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art http://jcsm.auburn.edu/ which says: "Myers' work rightfully takes an esteemed place beside those other urban realists like Robert Henri, John Sloan, and George Luks, among many others, who confidently turned away from traditional studio themes to depict the familiar and everyday reality of their surroundings." Accessed 2/19
"Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York" from Mario Naves. Accessed July, 2015
"New York City and the Ashcan school - American art movement," Nov, 1995 by Virginia M. Mecklenburg from Magazine Antiques. [Link found to be expired as of 2015 audit. TFAO is saving the citation for use by researchers.]
Notes on the Ethnic Image in Ashcan School Paintings by Maggie Stenz, from Brickhaus.com. Accessed July, 2015
Toledo Museum of Art provides several online catalogues free of charge. An example is George Bellows and New York 1900-1930, published in conjunction with a 2013 exhibition. TMA notes that all works are from its collection. Accessed April, 2015
The Virtual Armory Show from the University of Virginia American Studies Program. Accessed July, 2015
Books
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A Google Book Search conducted April 26, 2008 located 651 books featuring either full view or Limited Preview with the search phrase "Ashcan artists." Books with "Limited Preview" include:
Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York, By Rebecca Zurier, Robert W. Snyder, Virginia M. Mecklenburg, National Museum of American Art (U.S.), Published 1995 by W. W. Norton & Company, New York (N.Y.). 232 pages. ISBN:0393039013. Google Books says: "Showcases the exhibition" Note: Google Books offers a Limited Preview of this book. For more information on this and other digitizing initiatives from publishers please click here and here.(right: front cover, Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York, image courtesy Google Books)
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