THE ASHCAN’S JOIE DE VIVRE: LIFE, LEISURE & DETROIT
Speaker: James Tottis
Thursday, June 1, 2017
6 pm | Cocktails
7 pm | Dinner
8 pm | Lecture
Philadelphia newspapermen William Glackens, George Luks, Everett Shinn, John Sloan and their artistic mentor, Robert Henri formed the core of the Ashcan School. However, this so-called “school” drew from a far more expansive group that embraced Henri’s thoughts on and approach to painting. Thus, the Ashcan school was not an organized institution, yet a group of artists linked through a philosophy of shared ideas. Henri advocated “a realism” inspiration by the immediate world. He encouraged his students and followers to use as subjects the world as they found it, thus absorb “the great ideas native to his country”. Among the subjects addressed were a multitude of pursuits celebrating the facets of life available to the citizenry of varied social strata.
Dinner & Lecture $65 | Lecture Only $20 | Students $15
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