1920's The Arts | Painting

Schools.

"Ashcan," "Precisionist," "Regionalist"—several schools of American art flourished in the 1920s, as well as important painters unallied with any school.

"Ashcan."

The "Ashcan School," developed from Impressionism, was realistic painting of informal subject and style. John Sloan (1871-1951) and George Bellows (1882-1925) were still producing important work in the 1920s (Sixth Avenue Elevated at Third Street by Sloan in 1928; Lady Jean by Bellows in 1924), though they are identified especially with the preceding decade.

Stieglitz Group.

After the 1913 New York Armory Show launched modern art in America, the two principal clusters of American avant-garde artists were the Stieglitz Group and the Precisionists. All of these painters were born in the 1870s and 1880s, and they overlapped. The Stieglitz circle were painters who had been exhibited by photographer Alfred Stieglitz at...