Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York

Author

Rebecca Zurier, Robert W. Snyder, and Virginia M. Mecklenburg

Publisher

W.W. Norton & Company

Co-Publisher

Copublished with W. W. Norton & Company

Year Published

1995

Subjects

Painting - Museum Books

Pages

232 pp.: ill. (some col.)

ISBN Hardcover

0-937311-27-8

Dimensions

9 x 11 in.

Description

The six artists whose earthy, urban subjects led critics to call them the “Ashcan School” are featured in this book. The authors document how closely the work of these artists reflected current events and social concerns at the turn of the century. Newspaper clippings, postcards, and other ephemera of the period are reproduced.

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