SLOAN, JOHN


Meaning of SLOAN, JOHN in English

born Aug. 2, 1871, Lock Haven, Pa., U.S.

died Sept. 7, 1951, Hanover, N.H.

U.S. artist.

He worked as a commercial newspaper artist in Philadelphia, where he studied with Robert Henri . He followed Henri to New York City, where in 1908 with six others they exhibited as The Eight . Sloan's realistic urban paintings gave rise to the epithet Ash Can school . Works such as Sunday, Women Drying Their Hair (1912) and Backyards, Greenwich Village (1914) are sympathetic portrayals of working men and women; occasionally he evoked a mood of romantic melancholy.

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