Robert Henri

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Erisava Staff 19h ago

Street Scene with Snow (57th Street, NYC.) by Robert Henri, 1902

Yale University Art Gallery · wikidata.org

Street Scene with Snow (57th Street, NYC.)

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The story goes he told his students to paint the city as it actually was, slush and all, while polite taste wanted prettier things. His crowd got called the Ashcan School for it — which apparently started out as an insult.

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