Word: ashcan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...belt/Leaps from Far Rockaway to Golden Gate," is was this America on the move, ironing out its regional peculiarities and aswarm immigrant energy, that artists were now forced consider, and most of them found viewing best when equipped with foreign spectacles. While the newspaper-trained illustrators who became the ashcan school saw ugliness as a police court scene, their friend. Maurice Prendergast, went to Paris, returned to paint Manhattan's Central Park in the pure colors of a soft-hued tapestry...
...Whistler or Mary Cassatt before him, Hassam returned to the U.S. after three years in France. He settled in New York, rendering its parks and pavements with a stubborn gentility that admitted only such locales as Central Park and Fifth Avenue as proper subjects for oils. He excoriated the Ashcan School as "contemptuaries." He accused the public of admiring "every dab of paint that comes out of dressmaking Paris." He called critics "dolts, asses, dullards who rave about impressionism and realism without knowing what Prussian blue is." And dealers were plain "racketeers." Hassam was so single-mindedly American that Fellow...
...enthralled with further fratricide that we can't elect men in 1966. And let's stop castigating and start cultivating the press. We Republicans are not sick, we're not dead, we're not dying, and we're not ready for the ashcan of history. We're not so down and out that the only remedy that will put us back on our feet is a large dose of Dr. Johnson's snake...
...took place on Thursday morning a fortnight ago, on a sidewalk in Manhattan's predominantly white East 70s. For reasons now lost in a tangle of differing tales, a white apartment-house superintendent turned a hose on a group of Negro teenagers. The kids threw bottles and ashcan lids at the man, and three of them, including a 15-year-old named James Powell, chased him into the building...
ROBERT HENRI-Chapellier, 954 Madison Ave. at 75th. Henri was best as a portraitist: with two circlets of emerald green he puts a Gaelic glint into an Irish boy's eyes. The 41 works include sketches of his fellow rebels in the Ashcan school and the well-known painting of a Chinese worker, Jim Lee. A nude that raised eyebrows at the 1913 Armory show is still a scene stealer. Through April...