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Picturing reform: Ashcan women and the visual culture of the progressive era in New York City
Between 1895 and 1925, social movements in New York City focused on improving the lives of the urban working classes. Progressive reformers maintained that the environment of the city, growing industry, and systems of exploitation threatened the personal sovereignty of the individual. I argue that …
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Between impressionism and realism: Robert Henri's early career, navigation of nineteenth-century French modernism, and the development of an American avant-garde
… Realist and the outspoken representative of the Ashcan artists. Inspired by his philosophy of artistic practice, Henri's followers embraced their individuality and represented their engagement with the realities of modern life. For his own part, however, Henri never truly adopted the reformist …
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American Images of Childhood in an Age of Educational and Social Reform, 1870-1915
… the school. These painters foreran the realist “Ashcan School,” whose paintings of misfit children illustrated the vices of the growing, clashing American city. Yet these were not the only images of children produced in this period. Paintings of the “Genteel Tradition” portrayed pampered …