Description
Around 1900 a group of American artists arose with Robert Henri, painter and influential teacher, at their center. Their chosen subjects were scenes of urban life in New York City, in all its unvarnished truth. Their realistic pictures shocked academia and the public, who were used to the edited, beautiful sunlit subjects of the American impressionists. The dark gritty work of Shinn, Sloan, Glackens, Luke and Bellows was deemed by some to be fit only for the ashcan. Their truth to nature will influence the next generation of urban realists including Reginald Marsh and Edward Hopper.
