Ash Can School

noun

1. a group of US painters including Robert Henri and later George Bellows, founded in 1907, noted for their depiction of the sordid aspects of city life

Example Sentences

Here the Ash Can School, American Scene painting and various degrees of Modernism, both abstract and representational, are constantly sparring.

Read more on New York Times

With its defiant 1908 show, staged in protest against the academic National Academy of Design, Henri's "Ash Can School"* blew the lid off New York's art world.

Read more on Time Magazine Archive

He was placed by the fussier critics in the "Ash Can School," did not sell a painting until he was 49.

Read more on Time Magazine Archive

Henri was the presiding genius of an American art movement sneeringly dubbed the "Ash Can School."

Read more on Time Magazine Archive