Word: ashcan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John Sloan, who is usually tagged as a leading practitioner of the Ashcan School, was on vacation from realism in Picnic on the Ridge. On a glorious night near Santa Fe, a group of artists gathers round a picnic fire. Sloan himself is in profile, holding a coffee cup. His wife kneels just behind him. He summered in Santa Fe, but Sloan worked in Greenwich Village and became a sort of guardian spirit of its artists. Once, from the top of Washington Square Arch, he went so far as to proclaim the Village an independent republic...