History of the United States II / Unit 4 USH2 0481 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Ashcan School
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The idea
Painters including George Bellows, Edward Hopper and Robert Henri formed the Ashcan School, depicting working-class city life as it was.
In practice
Canvases of tenements and congested streets, in the phrase Digital History uses.
Where people slip
Their subject was the city itself, slums included. Twain and Warner's novel of eighteen seventy-three gave the era its name, the Gilded Age.
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