Ashcan School New York City FDNY Lower East Side Winter Fire Fighter Original Oil Painting

This antique American Ashcan school painting is large and impressive in person.  Finely painted with lots of detail and depth.  The subject is the lower east side of Manhattan circa 1890. 

A rare and large original oil on canvas, housed in a period cove gold glit frame.  

Rare Subject and very early!

About:

The Ashcan School, also called the Ash Can School, was an artistic movement in the United States during the early twentieth century that is best known for works portraying scenes of daily life in New York, often in the city's poorer neighborhoods. The most famous artists working in this style included Robert Henri (1865-1929), George Luks (1867-1933), William Glackens (1870–1938), John Sloan (1871-1951), and Everett Shinn(1876-1953), some of whom had met studying together under the renowned realist Thomas Anshutz at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and others of whom met in the newspaper offices of Philadelphia where they worked as illustrators.