Artist

John Sloan

born Lock Haven, PA 1871-died Hanover, NH 1951
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John Sloan at work in his studio, ca. 1925, © Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum J0002183
Born
Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, United States
Died
Hanover, New Hampshire, United States
Active in
  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States
  • Sante Fe, New Mexico, United States
  • New York, New York, United States
Biography

Painter, illustrator and teacher. With William Glackens, George Luks, Robert Henri, and Everett Shinn, Sloan was part of the Ashcan School. His sympathetic, but unsentimental, depictions of urban life and the working class expressed his commitment to social reform.

Joan Stahl American Artists in Photographic Portraits from the Peter A. Juley & Son Collection (Washington, D.C. and Mineola, New York: National Museum of American Art and Dover Publications, Inc., 1995)

Works by this artist (5 items)

Sanford Robinson Gifford, From the Shawangunk Mountains, 1823-1880, oil on canvas on panel, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Charles H. Ettl, 1987.61.2
From the Shawangunk Mountains
Date1823-1880
oil on canvas on panel
On view
Sanford Robinson Gifford, Villa Malta, Rome, 1879, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of William T. Evans, 1909.9.9
Villa Malta, Rome
Date1879
oil on canvas
On view
Sanford Robinson Gifford, Indians at Campfire--Moon Rising, n.d., oil on paper on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Charles H. Ettl, 1987.61.1
Indians at Campfire – Moon Rising
Daten.d.
oil on paper on canvas
Not on view

Exhibitions

A painting of a woman sitting down and reading 'Le Figaro'
Special Installation of Nineteen American Masterworks
April 17, 2015August 16, 2015
Integrated within the chronological flow of the museum’s permanent collection, these masterworks from Gilded Age, Impressionist, and Ashcan School painters will help to tell the story of the late 19th century and early 20th centuries in America, a “coming