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...them down recognizably and fast. Later, under the leadership of Painter Robert Henri, they did much the same thing in oils, and dared to call it art. That threw the academic art world of the day into a righteous rage. Henri's group became the "Ashcan School," hooted at by almost everyone...
Freedom for the Village. To the modern eye, bloodshot from staring at much harsher art, the oils of Sloan's "Ashcan" period look purely poetic. He once clambered to the top of the Washington Square arch to proclaim Greenwich Village an independent republic, and his paintings look like dream-glimpses of such a republic-familiar, but never unpleasantly so. He crowded his painted world with plump ladies and children, always in the best of spirits and often partly undressed. And over them he sometimes succeeded in weaving a deep sparkle of color which few U.S. contemporaries could touch...
...time he was 50, Sloan had sold only six serious paintings. To stay alive he did magazine illustrating and taught art. Nowadays he makes a modest living from his painting, but it is his early pictures that sell. Sloan himself looks back on his "Ashcan" oils with an equal mixture of nostalgia and pride. "Young people won't realize," he says mildly, "how sweet . . . sweet and sad Manhattan was before Prohibition. The new skyline looks like a broken comb. We're the dirt between the teeth, unfortunately. And who wants to paint a street all strewn with automobiles...
Born 65 years ago in Nyack, N.Y., Hopper has been following the painter's road for nearly half a century. He was lucky enough to study with Robert Henri, whose "Ashcan School" of urban realism neatly fitted his own natural bent, and he later made three trips to Paris (where he imitated the impressionists but made no contact with young moderns like Picasso). For a long time Hopper's road was a rocky one. He sold only two paintings in 23 years, supported himself by doing commercial illustrations, which he hated. Says Hopper: "I was a rotten illustrator...
...recent executive act, completely and irrevocably throwing Wilson Wyatt's program into the presidential ashcan, makes even more pressing the crystallizing of public sentiment on this vital issue," Karson said...