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What was the Ashcan School?

c.
a group of artists that often depicted gritty New York City life
d.
a group of artists that painted only the effects of fire

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The Ashcan School was an early-20th-century American realist movement whose artists (e.g., Robert Henri, John Sloan, George Bellows, William Glackens, Everett Shinn) painted gritty, everyday scenes of New York City and urban working‑class life, rather than idealized subjects.