John Sloan
(1871–1951) amerikansk målare och grafiker
John Sloan (USA, 1871–1951) is listed in the catalogue as a painter, a printmaker, a draughtsman, and a designer. By year of birth, John Sloan belongs to the chapter ‘The avant-garde’ in this site’s history of art.
John Sloan was born in Lock Haven and died in Hanover. John Sloan trained at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Spring Garden College. The teachers included Thomas Pollock Anshutz and Robert Henri. John Sloan worked in New York City, Hanover, and Philadelphia. Wikidata associates John Sloan with Ashcan School. John Sloan became a member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Letters, and The Eight. The students included John D. Graham, Elsie Driggs, Aaron Bohrod, and Reginald Marsh.
The best-known works include ‘Seacoast, Gloucester’, ‘John French Sloan letter to Walter Pach, 1920 June 9’, ‘John French Sloan Self-Portrait’, and ‘Monument in the Plaza’. The works belong mainly to the genres genre painting, nude, and landscape painting. The catalogue has 21 works by John Sloan with free images. The dated works span the years 1897–1947. Works by John Sloan are held by several collections, among them New Britain Museum of American Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, and Art Institute of Chicago.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Angel De Cora, Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts, Clark Greenwood Voorhees, Louis Soutter, and Elena Klokacheva.