What term describes the early 20th-century American realist painting movement that focused on urban life, exemplified by artists like George Bellows and Robert Henri?

• A Hudson River School
• B Precisionism
• C Regionalism
• D Ashcan School ✓

The Ashcan School, also called The Eight, rejected academic formalism in favour of gritty, unidealised depictions of city streets, tenements, and working-class life.