Kraushaar Galleries will open the 2001-2002 season with the traveling exhibit of figurative paintings by John Sloan (1871-1951).
Making Faces: A Selection of Portraits by John Sloan is the first exhibition to focus on John Sloan’s portraits and explores an area of the artist’s oeuvre that is often overshadowed by his urban scenes. Beginning with the early depiction of his friend and fellow artist WILLIAM GLACKENS, circa 1895 (Delaware Art Museum), this show examines the developments in Sloan’s style after his exposure to European modernism at the 1913 Armory show. This is evident in such works as DOROTHY HART, GREEN DRESS, 1913, (The Columbus Museum, Georgia) and the Gloucester period REDDY IN THE TREE, 1917. Making Faces concludes with a selection of paintings from the 1930s and 1940s.
The exhibition was organized with and previously seen at The Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia and includes loans from private and public collections. A fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by Linda Ferber, Curator, The Brooklyn Museum is available.
John Sloan was born in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania in 1871. He studied under Thomas Anshutz at the Pennsylvania in 1871. He studied under Thomas Anshutz at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts during the 1890s. He began his career as a commercial artist in Philadelphia and did not begin to paint seriously until 1897 at the encouragement of Robert Henri. Sloan later moved to New York where he worked as a magazine illustrator and had a successful career teaching at the Art Students’ League, the George Luks School and the Archipenko School of Art. He was also art editor of the magazine The Masses. In 1908 he helped to organize the now famous independent exhibition of “The Eight” at the Macbeth Gallery in New York. He also was one of the organizers of the Exhibition of Independent Artists in 1910 and was President of the Society of Independent Artists from 1918 to 1944. Sloan had his first one-man show in 1916 at the Whitney Studio Club in New York. His work has continuously been shown at Kraushaar Galleries since 1917 and is in the collections of major museums across the country.
