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...painters who reported on it were nicknamed the Ashcan School by a critic in the 1930s, and the label has stuck. They were Robert Henri, John Sloan, George Luks, Everett Shinn, William Glackens and George Bellows, and among them they created the first art of urban America. The current show at the National Museum of American Art in Washington, "Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York," is a fine introduction to their work...
...group had formed around Henri in Philadelphia. Henri's original family name was Cozad--he was a very distant relation of Mary Cassatt--but his father, a riverboat gambler and property shark, had shot a man in Nebraska and had moved East and changed his name to escape the judge and jury. Young Henri (pronounced Hen-rye) became an artist through study at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, which in the 1880s was still what its chief teacher, the great realist Thomas Eakins, had made it: the best place in America to learn direct, factual realist...
...late 1940s, Roy DeCarava stepped into the most irresistible role that photography offers: a walker in the city, a camera-equipped descendant of the quick-witted literary strollers that the French called flaneurs. Looking out for the knotty surprises the street has in store, he was like Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris or Harry Callahan in Chicago. What was different for DeCarava was that most of his streets were in Harlem, which made him a roving eye in a part of town that the rest of the world didn't see much of. In the retrospective of his work that...
...large enrollment can be attributed to the "charismatic and warm" demeanor of Professor of Fine Arts Henri T. Zerner, according to Andrew G. Patterson...
GINGRICH was always clear about his academic ambitions: he had none. "The standard back then was to be interested in history and not anything else--not even your wife and kids," says Pierre-Henri Laurent, who supervised Gingrich's dissertation at Tulane. "This kid was deviant--he was talking about going into politics." When Laurent offered to help him get a good first teaching job, Gingrich told him not to bother. "He said, 'Don't worry, I'm close to getting something at West Georgia College.' 'West Georgia College,' I said. 'What is this?' He said, 'The congressional district...