Hard manual labour and human shields in the First World War, before Tennis at Newport, Jack Dempsey boxing, and a final Summer Fantasy.
Ashcan
Originally intending to be a pro sportsman, became one of the pioneers of the Ashcan School with his gritty scenes of ordinary people in New York.
One of the most influential painters of the early 20th century, he founded the Ashcan School, and was a major landscape painter of the time.
From 1920, his paintings focussed more on his family, then changed direction again in his late landscapes.
One of the greatest US painters of the twentieth century, his early Ashcan works showed the harsh realities of life in the city.
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