John French Sloan

(American, 1871–1951)

John Sloan was a prominent member of the Ashcan School of painters. Employing impasto brushstrokes and nuanced color, he depicted everyday scenes of New York, as seen in his works Chinese Restaurant (1909) and McSorley’s Bar (1912). “Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time—condemned to painting for life,” the artist once reflected. Born John French Sloan on August 2, 1871 in Lock Haven, PA, he grew up in Philadelphia where he worked at a print shop as teenager to help support his family. Sloan went on to work as an illustrator for the The Philadelphia Inquirer while enrolled in Thomas Anshutz’s evening painting classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. During the early 1890s, Sloan met the artist Robert Henri, who encouraged the younger painter to copy the works of Édouard Manet and Frans Hals. Sloan moved to New York in 1904, where began painting the lives of working class people amidst the backdrop of Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side. The artist’s empathy towards his subject’s difficult lives led him to join the Socialist Party in 1910. From 1918 onward, Sloan spent each summer in Santa Fe, NM, where he painted the landscape as well as the local Native American tribes. The artist died on September 7, 1951 in Hanover, NH. Today, his works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., among others.

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Anshutz on Anatomy, 1912

John French Sloan

Anshutz on Anatomy, 1912

Sale Date: November 4, 2004

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Up the Line, Miss?, 1930

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Up the Line, Miss?, 1930

Sale Date: November 4, 2004

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Fourteenth Street, The Wigwam, 1928

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Fourteenth Street, The Wigwam, 1928

Sale Date: November 4, 2004

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McSorley's Back Room, 1916

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McSorley's Back Room, 1916

Sale Date: November 4, 2004

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Night Windows, 1910

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Night Windows, 1910

Sale Date: November 4, 2004

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Union Square, New York City

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Union Square, New York City

Sale Date: December 15, 2004

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Palace of the Governors, 1919

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Palace of the Governors, 1919

Sale Date: December 1, 2004

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Tesuque Reservation, 1948

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Tesuque Reservation, 1948

Sale Date: December 1, 2004

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Hotel dance, Santa Fe, 1919

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Hotel dance, Santa Fe, 1919

Sale Date: December 1, 2004

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Woman on couch, 1912

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Woman on couch, 1912

Sale Date: December 1, 2004

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The black hat, 1915

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The black hat, 1915

Sale Date: December 1, 2004

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Gray day, Jersey Coast, 1911

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Gray day, Jersey Coast, 1911

Sale Date: December 1, 2004

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Copyist in the Metropolitan Museum, 1908

John French Sloan

Copyist in the Metropolitan Museum, 1908

Sale Date: November 5, 2004

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Nude with mirror, 1926

John French Sloan

Nude with mirror, 1926

Sale Date: November 5, 2004

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Rector's daughter, 1923

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Rector's daughter, 1923

Sale Date: November 5, 2004

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Nude at dressing table, 1933

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Nude at dressing table, 1933

Sale Date: October 23, 2004

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Nude at piano, 1933

John French Sloan

Nude at piano, 1933

Sale Date: October 23, 2004

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Central Park with mother and child in carriage

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Central Park with mother and child in carriage

Sale Date: March 20, 2004

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Nude at bedside, 1933

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Nude at bedside, 1933

Sale Date: October 19, 2004

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Arch conspirators, 1917

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Arch conspirators, 1917

Sale Date: October 19, 2004

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Moods, 1895

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Moods, 1895

Sale Date: October 14, 2004

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Nude, blue swirl, couch and ashtray, 1928

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Nude, blue swirl, couch and ashtray, 1928

Sale Date: September 29, 2004

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Nude on stairs, 1930

John French Sloan

Nude on stairs, 1930

Sale Date: September 28, 2004

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X-Rays, 1926

John French Sloan

X-Rays, 1926

Sale Date: September 28, 2004

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