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Also Known As May Wilson • Mary Wilson Preston
Born August 11, 1873 • New York City • New York
Died May 18, 1949 (aged 75) • East Hampton • New York
Movement / Style Ashcan School

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May Wilson Preston: illustration for “Tish's Spy”
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William Steig
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William J. Glackens: East River Park
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Wake of the Ferry, oil on canvas by John French Sloan, 1907; in the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
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Winslow Homer: Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)
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Art Spiegelman, 2008.
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Charles Dana Gibson.
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James Montgomery Flagg
James Montgomery Flagg
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Saul Steinberg, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1951.
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Bonnard, Pierre: Place Clichy
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A Footnote (self-portrait), ink on board by Aubrey Beardsley, 1896.
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