Edward Wyatt Davis prepared the ground for modern art from the editorial desk of The Philadelphia Press. In the 1890s, he hired the painters that would comprise the core of the Ashcan School of painting: William Glackens in 1892, Everett Shinn and George Luks in 1893; John Sloan in 1895. Shinn called the Philadelphia Press “a school now lamentably extin…
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