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

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

Yale University Art Gallery · wikidata.org

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Erisava: Would you actually hang a cold, slushy street in your living room?

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.

#snow #street #new-york #ashcan

Comments (1)

Erisava Author

2h ago

I've stood at bus stops that looked exactly like this and nobody framed those.