The Ashcan School and The Eight

"""Creating a National Art"""

Brandon Ruud, John Fagg, Margarita Karasoulas , Nikki Otten

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Milwaukee Art Museum
01 May 2022

History of art: ancient & classical art; Painting & paintings

"The Ashcan School and The Eight are now recognised as America's first modern art movement: rejecting their academic training and the practices of the National Academy of Design, they forged a new art that represented America's shifting values. By focusing on urban streets scenes, the lives of immigrants, popular entertainments, and the working poor, this loosely affiliated group of artists became synonymous with ordinary, everyday subjects - in the words of one critic, ""pictures of ashcans."" Yet this is only part of their story: they also experimented with complex colour theory and embraced scientific studies about movement and perception, while also creating scenes of bourgeois leisure and society portraits in attempts to reconcile their high-art practices with their populist reputations.

This catalogue features nearly 130 works across media, including paintings, drawings, pastels, and prints - rarely seen objects and popular favourites. Collectively these works emphasise the Ashcan School's and The Eight's valuable contributions to the formation of American modernism at the beginning of the 20th century.

AUTHORS: Brandon Ruud, Abert Family Curator of American Art, Milwaukee Art Museum.

John Fagg, Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Cultures, University of Birmingham, England.

Margarita Karasoulas, Assistant Curator, American Art, Brooklyn Museum.

Nikki Otten, Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings, Milwaukee Art Museum.

204 colour illustrations"

By: Brandon Ruud
Other: John Fagg, Margarita Karasoulas, Nikki Otten, Milwaukee Art Museum
Imprint: Milwaukee Art Museum
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 279mm, Width: 241mm,
Weight: 1.303kg
ISBN: 9781938885143
ISBN 10: 1938885147
Pages: 162
Publication Date: 01 May 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Foreword Acknowledgments “To be Felt, Not Seen” The Landscapes of Robert Henri The “American Ward”? Italian Immigration and the Ashcan School’s Greenwich Village The Unseen City The Ashcan School’s New York The Dynamic Artist Physiological and Perceptual Theory in the Work of Arthur Bowen Davies “For Every Citizen” Building an Ashcan School Collection in Milwaukee Illustrated Checklist

Brandon Ruud, Abert Family Curator of American Art, Milwaukee Art Museum. John Fagg, Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Cultures, University of Birmingham, England. Margarita Karasoulas, Assistant Curator, American Art, Brooklyn Museum. Nikki Otten, Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings, Milwaukee Art Museum.