Eugene O'Neill and the Ashcan Artists
Eugene O''Neill lived with the artist George Bellows in the early twentieth century; met Robert Henri, the leader of the future Ashcan School; and knew John Sloan, who etched O''Neill at the Lincoln Arcade studio on Upper Broadway. These visual artists made a profound impression on the future playwright, and when O''Neill began writing plays in 1913, he drew upon the images he had first seen on...
Eugene O''Neill lived with the artist George Bellows in the early twentieth century; met Robert Henri, the leader of the future Ashcan School; and knew John Sloan, who etched O''Neill at the Lincoln Arcade studio on Upper Broadway. These visual artists made a profound impression on the future playwright, and when O''Neill began writing plays in 1913, he drew upon the images he had first seen on...
