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Ashcan Kids: Children in the Art of Henri, Luks, Gakens, Bellows & Sloan
Ashcan Kids Children in the Art of Henri Luks Gakens Bellows Sloan Author:Bruce Weber [from the essay] "Saloons, tenements, boxing matches, and slums: this is what most of us know at the stuff of the Ashcan Scool painters. Theirs was a world a million miles from children and childhood, yes? Actually, the distance could be measured in a very few city blocks of turn-of-the-nineteenth century urban America. For the Ashcan world incl... more »uded the children of million of impoverished Russian Jews and southern Italians who were then settling on Manhattan's Lower East Side, changing the ethnic face of the nation's cultural capital. The immigrant children of the area, who were becoming the subject of great popular attention through newspapers, magazines, and the work of such social reformers as Jacob Riis, beckoned also as subjects for George Bellows, William Glackens, and George Luks, artists central to the Ashcan School. John Sloan would find his subjects downtown in the neighborhod around Madison Square Park, the Tenderloin district and Greenwich Village, and Robert Henri would paint the children of diverse racial and national backgrounds that he encountered in the city and on his travels...." b/w figures, 67 plates, most in color« less