A group of United States painters founded in 1907 and noted for their realistic depictions of sordid aspects of city life WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

The Ashcan School, also called the Ash Can School, was an artistic movement in the United States during the late 19th-early 20th century that produced works portraying scenes of daily life in New York, often in the city's poorer neighborhoods. Wikipedia

A realist artistic movement Wikipedia Disambiguation