A group of the world's top industrialized nations who meet periodically to discuss global trade, investment, and other financial topics; members are the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Russia.
This group, founded in 1908, whose members were Arthur B. Davies, William Glackens, Robert Henri, Ernest Lawson, George Luks, Maurice Prendergast, Everett Shinn and John Sloan, was known as The Eight (the Group of Eight) and was mainly American. Because of the themes they painted (a mixture of noise, smells, and the grit of urban life), they later became known as the Ashcan School.