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Finalist for the 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Regional category
Silver Winner, 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards in the History category
At the beginning of the twentieth century the Ashcan School of Art blazed onto the art scene, introducing a revolutionary vision of New York City. In contrast to the elite artists who painted the upper class bedecked in finery, in front of magnificent structures, or the progressive reformers who photographed the city as a slum, hopeless and full of despair, the Ashcan School held the unique belief that the industrial working-class city was a fit subject for great art. In Beauty in the City, Robert A. Slayton illustrates how these artists portrayed the working classes with respect and gloried in the drama of the subways and excavation sites, the office towers, and immigrant housing. Their art captured the emerging metropolis in all its facets, with its potent machinery and its class, ethnic, and gender issues. By exposing the realities of this new, modern America through their art—expressed in what they chose to draw, not in how they drew it—they created one of the great American art forms.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. And Like That . . . They’re Gone
2. Top and Bottom
3. Vision from an Ashcan
4. The Ashcan Artists
5. The Art Scene
6. Moving On
7. The City as Art
8. People of the City
9. Life in the Ashcan City
10. The Ashcan School and Its Critics
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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BEAUTY IN THE CITY
BEAUTY
IN THE CITY
THE ASHCAN SCHOOL
R OBERT A. S LAYTON
Cover art: Six O’clock, Winter, by John Sloan, 1912, oil on canvas, 26⅛ × 32 in., acquired 1922, copyright Delaware Art Museum/Artists Rights Society, NY, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. Used by permission.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Slayton, Robert A., author.
Title: Beauty in the city : the Ashcan school / Robert A. Slayton.
Description: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2017. | Series: Excelsior editions | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016045129 (print) | LCCN 2016047726 (ebook) | ISBN 9781438466415 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781438466439 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Ashcan school of art. | Art and society—United States—History—19th century. | Art and society—United States—History—20th century. | City and town life—United States—History—19th century. | City and town life—United States—History—20th century.
Classification: LCC N6512.5.E4 S59 2017 (print) | LCC N6512.5.E4 (ebook) | DDC 701/.03—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016045129
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To the people of New York City
For the generations past, those at present, and iterations yet to come
C ONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
C HAPTER I And Like That … They’re Gone
C HAPTER II Top and Bottom
C HAPTER III Vision from an Ashcan
C HAPTER IV The Ashcan Artists
C HAPTER V The Art Scene
C HAPTER VI Moving On
C HAPTER VII The City as Art
C HAPTER VIII People of the City
C HAPTER IX Life in the Ashcan City
C HAPTER X The Ashcan School and Its Critics
Notes
Bibliography
Index
I LLUSTRATIONS 1.1 Front page of the exhibition catalog, Exhibition of Paintings by Arthur B. Davies, William J. Glackens, Robert Henri, Ernest Lawson, George Luks, Maurice B. Prendergast, Everett Shinn, John Sloan , February 3–15, 1908 1.2 Marcel Duchamp, reproduction of Nude Descending a Staircase 2.1 Madison Grant, portrait by Kyohei Inukai, 1925 2.2 Edgar Degas, Place de la Concorde (Viscount Lepic and His Daughters Crossing the Place de la Concorde) 2.3 Claude Monet, Argenteuil, la berge en fleurs , 1877 2.4 Edouard Manet, The Railway , 1873 2.5 Willard Metcalf, Battery Park , 1924 2.6 Childe Hassam, Washington Arch, Spring , ca. 1893 2.7 Childe Hassam, The Manhattan Club , ca. 1891 2.8 Jacob Riis, Bottle Alley Mulberry Bend, X shows where the victim stood when shot , ca. 1895 2.9 Jacob Riis, Italian mother and her baby in Jersey Street or In the Home of an Italian Ragpicker, Jersey Street , ca. 1890 2.10 Jacob Riis, Two Greek children in Gotham Court debating if Santa Claus will get to their alley or not. He did , ca. 1890 2.11 Jacob Riis, Minding the baby; Baby yells a Whirlwind Scream, Gotham Court , 1890 2.12 Lewis Hine, Jewess at Ellis Island—1905 , 1905 2.13 Lewis Hine, A One-Room Household 2.14 Lewis Hine, The Street Market 2.15 Lewis Hine, In Carnegie’s Footsteps 2.16 Lewis Hine, The Brook in Munhall Hollow 2.17 Lewis Hine, Laura Petty, a 6-year-old berry picker on Jenkins farm, Rock Creek near Baltimore, Md . 2.18 Lewis Hine, Tenement Child—1909 3.1 John Sloan, Six O’clock, Winter , 1912 3.2 John Sloan, Sunset West Twenty-Third Street (23rd Street, Roofs, Sunset), 1906 3.3 George Luks, Thompson and Bleecker Streets , ca. 1905 3.4 George Wesley Bellows, The Cliff-Dwellers , 1913 3.5 George Wesley Bellows, Blue Morning , 1909 3.6 John Sloan, Carmine Street Theater , 1912 3.7 John Sloan, The Wake of the Ferry II , 1907 3.8 John Sloan, Election Night , 1907 3.9 George Luks, Street Scene (Hester Street) , 1905 3.10 John Sloan, The Show Case , 1905 3.11 John Sloan, Woman and Child on the Roof , 1914 3.12 John Sloan Three A.M ., 1909 3.13 John Sloan, Salute , ca. 1911 3.14 Everett Shinn, The Laundress , 1903 3.15 Robert Henri, Snow in New York , 1902 4.1 Robert Henri, Cumulus Clouds, East River , 1901–1902 4.2 John Sloan, Sixth Avenue Elevated at Third Street , 1928 4.3 George Wesley Bellows, Dempsey and Firpo , 1924 4.4 George Benjamin Luks, Bleecker and Carmine Streets, New York , ca. 1905 4.5 William Glackens, “He noticed he was in front of the lottery office,” ca. 1902 4.6 Everett Shinn, The Docks, New York City , 1901 4.7 Jerome Myers, The Street Carousel, East Side, New York , 1907 5.1 Thomas Eakins, Between Rounds , 1898–1899 5.2 Thomas Eakins, study for Salutat , 1898 5.3 Thomas Eakins, The Champion Single Sculls (Max Schmitt in a Single Scull), 1871 5.4 Thomas Eakins, sketch for The Gross Clinic , 1875 5.5 Thomas Pollock Anshutz, The Ironworkers’ Noontime , 1880 5.6 Joseph Pennell, Edgar Thomson Steel Works, Bessemer , 1908 5.7 Joseph Pennell, Across the Bowery Looking East 5.8 Joseph Pennell, Jewish Cemetery (Near Bowery) 5.9 Joseph Pennell, Tenements Near Brooklyn Bridge 6.1 Edward Hopper, Nighthawks , 1942 6.2 Edward Hopper, Night Windows , 1928 6.3 Edward Hopper, Sunday , 1926 6.4 Edward Hopper, Room in New York , 1932 6.5 Edward Hopper, Skyline Near Washington Square , 1925 6.6 Charles Goeller, Third Avenue , 1933–1934 6.7 Lily Furedi, Subway , 1934 6.8 Reginald Marsh, Twenty Cent Movie , 1936 6.9 Raphael Soyer, Office Girls , 1936 7.1 George Wesley Bellows, New York , 1911 7.2 Jerome Myers, Sunday Morning , 1907 7.3 George Luks, Allen Street , 1905 7.4 William Glackens, Far from the Fresh Air Farm: The crowded city street, with its dangers and temptations, is a pitiful makeshift playground for children , 1911 7.5 John Sloan, Bonfire , 1920 7.6 George Wesley Bellows, A Morning Snow—Hudson River , 1910 7.7 John Sloan, Pigeons , 1910 7.8 John Sloan, A Woman’s Work , 1912 7.9 George Luks, Roundhouse at High Bridge , 1909–1910 7.10 George Wesley Bellows, Excavation at Night , 1908 7.11 William Glackens, Christmas Shoppers, Madison Square , 1912 7.12 William Glackens, Patrick Joseph Went and Bought Himself a Grocery Store in Monroe Street , 1912 7.13 Jerome Myers, The Street Market 7.14 John Sloan, Fun, One Cent , 1905 7.15 Everett Shinn, Window Shopping , 1903 7.16 John Sloan, Hairdresser’s Window , 1907 7.17 John Sloan, Movies , 1913 7.18 George Wesley Bellows, The Street (Spring Blossoms) (June Blossoms) , 1917 8.1 Jerome Myers, East Side Children 8.2 George Wesley Bellows, Forty-Two Kids , 1907 8.3 George Luks, The Spielers , 1905 8.4 George Wesley Bellows, Kids , 1906 8.5 George Wesley Bellows, Paddy Flannigan , 1905 8.6 John Sloan, Return from Toil , 1915 8.7 John Sloan, The Bachelor Girl , 1915 8.8 John Sloan, Sunday, Women Drying Their Hair , 1912 8.9 John Sloan, The Women’s Page , 1905 8.10 John Sloan, Turning Out the Light , 1905 8.11 John Sloan, McSorley’s Bar , 1912 8.12 George Wesley Bellows, The Knock Out, 1907 8.13 George Wesley Bellows, Stag at Sharkey’s , 1909 9.1 Ernest Lawson, Harlem Flats (Back Lot Laundry) , ca. 1907 9.2 William Glackens, Patriots in the Making , 1907 9.3 John Sloan, Roofs, Summer Night , 1906 9.4 John Sloan, Night Windows , 1910 9.5 John Sloan, Man, Wife and Child , 1905 9.6 John Sloan, Sunbathers on the Roof , 1941 9.7 Robert Henri, Portrait of Willie Gee , 1904 9.8 Robert Henri, The Laundress , 1916 9.9 Robert Henri, Eva Green , 1907 9.10 George Wesley Bellows, Both Members of This Club , 1909 10.1 Richard Estes, The Candy Store , 1969 10.2 Richard Estes, Supreme Hardware , 1974 10.3 Helen Levitt, Two Kids Dancing , ca. 1940 10.4 Helen Levitt, New York, c. 1939 (child in hydrant spray) 10.5 Helen Levitt, New York, c. 1942 (man holding baby) 10.6 Playground of P.S. 85, 1st Avenue 117th Street Boys in back alley with basketball hoop , June 1932 10.7 Fruit stand, corner of 40th Street 9th Avenue two vendors; oranges on crates (5 for 10 cents, 13 for 25) 10.8 Moxie billboards, playhouse advertisement, pedestrians , June 12, 1906 10.9 Eugene de Salignac, Delancey Street, north side , July 29, 1908 10.10 Eugene de Salignac, From Washington Street looking west, Brooklyn June 5, 1908
A CKNOWLEDGMENTS
Daniele Struppa gave me more than gracious and emphatic support of this project, both of which he supplied in abundance. Because of his backing, despite the enormous scope of this project with its dozens of images, I was never worried about money. That’s the most incredible gift; not just for me, but to any scholar. It was, and is, truly a remarkable thing. More than a thank-you, he has my immense gratitude and respect.
Wilkinson College and Dean Patrick Fuery also provided funding in the form of a Scholarly Grant. The Henry Salvatori Professorship at Chapman University enabled me to travel to showings of Ashcan art, which in turn allowed me to realize the greater significance of what these artists had achieved. Jennifer Keene, chair of the History Department, also provided crucial assistance.
Two colleagues made a world of difference in this project. Steve Ross read the entire manuscript and stepped in at a critical moment to reshape and save this project. Dominic Pacyga also endured every page and was a source of boundless faith throughout. My gratitude to these two friends is deep and vast, beyond mere words.
I also benefited from comments by Rebecca Zurier, James Tottis, and Richard Meyer. Amanda Lanne-Camilli at State University of New York Press was a font of wisdom a
