The Ashcan School
New York painted as it was: tenements, docks, crowds and boxing rings, by Robert Henri and the painters around him.
13 prints · printed to order on heavyweight matte paper · framed or unframed
The city as subject
Robert Henri taught that painters should paint the life in front of them, and around 1900 he and the painters near him did, in the streets, saloons and docks of New York. In February 1908 eight of them showed together at the Macbeth Gallery as The Eight. George Bellows, Henri's student, painted the crowded tenements of the Lower East Side, the Hudson docks and the boxing matches at Sharkey's. The name Ashcan came later, from critics.
On the wall
Dark, energetic city pictures for a study, a hallway or a bar wall. The boxing pictures are not for a child's room. A black frame suits them best.