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The Ashcan School

The Ashcan School was a small group of artists who, for about 5 years, attempted to document life in New York City. The style tried to capture it in realistic and  paintings and etchings of urban street scenes. Most of the major artists were Robert Henri, Thomas Eakins, Thomas Anshutz, George Wesley Bellows, William Glackens, Everett Shinn, George Luks and John Sloan.

The Ashcan School style was continued in the American Scene Painting of the 1920's and 1930's.

The Barbizon School

The Barbizon School was a group of landscape artists working in the mid 1900's around the French town of Barbizon, near Paris. They are part of the French Realist movement and rejected the Academic tradition, attempting to achieve a truer representation of life in the countryside. Theodore Rousseau is the best-known artist from this movement. Other members included Constant Troyon and Charles-Francois Daubigny. The Barbizon School artists are often considered the forerunners of the Impressionists, who took a similar philosophical approach to their art.



Adapted from Artcyclopedia

Nathan Paul Gibbs