Word: ashcan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Village's MacDougal Alley in 1907, the plush offices of the Fifth Avenue art dealers were still cold to all but academicians. Museums would not look twice at the work of naturalist painters such as John Sloan and William Glackens, who were sneeringly referred to as "the ashcan school...
House cleaning one morning, Mrs. Arthur Martin of Syracuse, N.Y. dusted the plaster statue of St. Anne a little too hastily: it toppled from the window ledge into the cement driveway below and broke into pieces. It was swept up and dropped in an ashcan and there the eldest of the Martins' four children, a lively, questing, eleven-year-old named Shirley Anne, found...
Shirley Anne took the head of the statue out of the ashcan. Only its nose had been dented. She pressed her lips affectionately against it. Then she ran shrilling into the house: "Mom, the statue cried. I kissed it and it cried." Viola Martin knew her daughter to be a perfectly normal girl, neither withdrawn nor possessed, but sufficiently imaginative to be pecking out on a typewriter a "book" she called "The Haunted House." Mrs. Martin decided to say nothing. "Nobody would have believed...
...China aid from twelve to 15 months. Hoping to restore the twelve-month spending period, Illinois Republican Everett Dirksen warned: "If we fail in this first year we shall fail for good . . . This cut may be the gentle little shove that may throw the government of France into the ashcan." Minority Leader Sam Rayburn, his bald head glistening under the hot House lights, pleaded: "Let us not do too little. Let us carry out to those people who want to be our allies the promise they think we made to them a few months...
Sloan has outlived the public's disapproval of his "Ashcan" art, and his long, bony, Scotch-Irish face looks almost fiercely stubborn when he says he will prove the public wrong once more. "I shared a studio with Henri once," Sloan says, "and he used to tell me, 'Never feel that you're making a work of art.' Well, I've drifted away from Henri's idea; I guess lately I've been trying to do just that, to paint a work...