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...mindedness and conscience has given us whatever we have enjoyed of liberty, while success and industry have fattened our GNP. On the downside, the worship of usefulness has impoverished American art; one takes the bad with the good. Italians invented the Renaissance -- and live in chaos. We produced the Ashcan school -- and Abraham Lincoln...
...Henri, the American realist disciple of Frans Hals and Edouard Manet. "My life begins at this point," he said of his apprenticeship to Henri. He soon developed a tough, pragmatic repertoire based on realist drawing and tonal composition. He was by far the most gifted younger member of the Ashcan School, a loose group that included John Sloan, George Luks and William Glackens. Not one of them ever painted an ash can, but they did believe, in a general way, that the artist should work from life as it was lived in the big dirty city and stay away from...
...over his work after 1914. Actually, Bellows was given to sudden shifts of style, but as the art historian Michael Quick points out in the show's useful catalog, his response to the transatlantic avant-garde was to get interested in theory, a fact that "removes Bellows from the Ashcan School context and places him among the modernist painters of his generation...
...largely without Davis: its beneficiaries were the Abstract Expressionists, and later the Pop artists. Davis' pragmatism, the empirical and logical qualities of his work that seem so admirable now and connect him back to the best strain in 19th century American art -- Audubon through Homer and Eakins to the Ashcan School -- actually counted against him. What the postwar art world liked was "spirituality" and "sublimity," the tincture of melancholy elevation. But Davis had always liked the American vernacular, the look of the street, the jostle and visual punch of signs, life imagined in jazz tempo, hard-edged, Cubist-based...
Donahue read an excerpt from a past Duke speech in which he called Jews "a blight" who should "go into the ashcan of history...