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NATIONAL HUMANITIES CENTER
THE ASHCAN SCHOOL
A Live, Online Professional Development Seminar
WELCOME
Drawing by George Luks
Robert Henri1865-1929
George BellowsPenn Station Excavation,1909
George Bellows,Stag Night at Starkeys,1907
Thomas W. Dewing,Hermit Thrush,1890
Childe Hassam,The El1984
John Sloan,Six O’Clock, Winter,1912
George Bellows,Paddy Flannigan,1908
Robert Henri,Himself,1913
Franz Hals,Malle Babbe,1633-35
John Sloan,Three a.m.,1909
John Sloan,The Hairdresser’s Window,1917
George Bellows, River Rats, 1906
John Sloan,Sunday Afternoon in Union Square,1912
John Sloan,Fifth Avenue,1906
John Sloan, The Show Case, (from the series "New York City Life"), 1905
John Sloan, Fun, One Cent (from the series "New York City Life"), 1905
John Sloan,Movies, Five Cents,1907
Everett Shinn,Shop Window,1903
Jacob Riis,Bandit’s Roost
Jacob Riis, Italian Mother and Baby, Ragpicker, New York, ca. 1889-1890.
Jacob Riis, quoted in Maren Stange, Symbols of Ideal Life: Social Documentary
Photography in America, 1890-1950, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989, p.16
“The beauty of looking into these places without actually being present there is that the excursionist is spared the vulgar sounds and odious scents and repulsive exhibitions attendant upon such a personal examination.”
George Bellows,Cliffdwellers, 1913
George Bellows, Tin Can Battle, San Juan Hill, New York, 1907.
“. . . You can unmistakably discern a Jew by the walk, the flat foot, the turning out of the palm of the hand. . . You can tell an artist by the way he uses a thumb in place of the forefinger in describing a scene or picture. You can detect a convict by his clasped hands . . .”
William Glackens
D.W. Griffith, “The Italian Barber,” movie still
D.W. Griffith, “Romance of the Jewess,” movie still
John Sloan,Man and Monkey, 1905
William Glackens,Far From the Fresh Air Farm,1911
William Glackens,Washington Square, 1913Museum of Modern Art, New York
William Glackens,Patriots in the Making,1907
Lewis Hine,Ellis Island photograph