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<p>John Sloan was a member of the Ashcan School, a group of artists who studied under Tomas Anschutz at the Pennsylvania Academy of Art and who are best remembered for their realistic, often gritty depictions of modern life in New York. Following the influential Armory Show of 1913, many artists ventured into experiments with abstraction; in this print, Sloan incorporated text and machine parts.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1917
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 20.3 × 25.3 cm (8 × 10 in.); Sheet: 26.2 × 30.8 cm (10 3/8 × 12 3/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- John Sloan
Artist
Printmaking
John Sloan was an American painter and printmaker known for urban scenes and social realist subjects rendered in oil and etching. Active in early twentieth-century New York, he documented city life with particular attention to working-class neighborhoods and street activity. His work appeared in the groundbreaking 1908 exhibition at Macbeth Gallery that helped establish American modernism. Sloan's etchings and paintings combined observation with a democratic regard for ordinary subjects often excluded from academic art practice.
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- John Sloan
- Year
- 1917
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 20.3 × 25.3 cm (8 × 10 in.); Sheet: 26.2 × 30.8 cm (10 3/8 × 12 3/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1917-071370
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
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