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John Sloan's canvas McSorley's Bar is his visual commentary on male bonding, prohibition, drinking, and the working class. It typifies the Ashcan School's painterly style, depiction of the working class and immigrant communities (here, the Irish Americans), urban subject matter, and the Ashcan School's promotion of painting as a masculine enterprise.
Sloan, John (1871–1951) (1871–1951).Painter and printmaker. Remembered especially for sympathetic portrayals of urban life executed in a rich, painterly style during his early career, he remained an important force in the art life of New York for many years. He exhibited with The Eight, participated for decades in organizing and promoting ...
John Sloan. Lock Haven, 1871-Hanover, 1951. Print page. A follower of Robert Henri and member of the group of The Eight, John Sloan spent most of his childhood in Philadelphia, where he and his family went to live in 1876. In 1888 he got a job with a publishing company and started practicing etching as a self-taught artist.
John French Sloan, né à Lock Haven le 2 août 1871 et mort à Hanover (New Hampshire) le 8 septembre 1951, est un artiste-peintre et illustrateur américain. John Sloan devient illustrateur au Philadelphia Inquirer à l'âge de 20 ans. Il assiste aux cours du soir de la Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, où il rencontre son mentor, Robert Henri , auteur de The Art Spirit.
John French Sloan (born August 2, 1871, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died September 7, 1951, Hanover, New Hampshire) was an American painter, etcher and lithographer, cartoonist, and illustrator known for the vitality of his depictions of everyday life in New York City in the early 20th century. Sloan was a commercial newspaper artist in ...
In 1905 John Sloan began an important series of etchings that he called the New York City Life Set. These pictures display distinctive aspects of everyday urban life and present the artist's response to the energy and diversity of the city where he relocated in 1904.
John Sloan's painting "Movies" from 1913 captures the gritty urban life of working-class New Yorkers. Sloan, a New York realist, uses open brushwork to depict the vitality of the city. The painting's subjects, illuminated by gas light, hint at the provocative and unglamorous aspects of the era.
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