John French Sloan

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John French Sloan (photo from 1891)
Helen at the Easel , 1947, a portrait of his second wife Helen Parr Sloan, Delaware Art Museum , Wilmington

John French Sloan (born August 2, 1871 in Lock Haven , Pennsylvania , † September 7, 1951 in Hanover , New Hampshire ) was an American graphic artist and painter , known for his artistic depictions of everyday life in New York .

life and work

Sloan was born in Lock Haven, a small town on the west bank of the Susquehanna River , to James Dixon Sloan and his wife Henrietta (née Ireland). His father was a carpenter and hobby artist, his mother a teacher at the girls' school there. At Central High School he was a classmate of the later, well-known art collector Albert C. Barnes , the founder of the Barnes Foundation . At the age of 20 he became an illustrator for The Philadelphia Inquirer . In the evenings he took courses at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia . There he met his future mentor Robert Henri , the writer of The Art Spirit , in 1892 .

In 1901 he married "Dolly" (Anna Maria) Wall. In 1904 the couple moved to New York and moved into a roof studio in Chelsea . Sloan began to paint, draw, and erase typical urban motifs . From 1906 he taught at the New York School of Art , his students included George Wesley Bellows (1882-1925) and Edward Hopper (1882-1967). In 1913 he was a member of the organizing committee of the Armory Show with Arthur B. Davies , Walt Kuhn and Walter Pach in New York and exhibited two paintings and five graphics there at the same time.

Sloan's style is strongly influenced by European artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, for example, he dealt with the works of Vincent van Gogh , Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse . Sloan settled in New York's Greenwich Village neighborhood , where he created, for example, McSorley's Bar , Sixth Avenue Elevated at Third Street and Wake of the Ferry . Sloan has spent the last few years in Gloucester, Massachusetts and Santa Fe , New Mexico.

Sloan was a member of the artist group The Eight ; some members, including Sloan, subsequently founded the New York artist community Ashcan School . One of his most famous students was Norman Raeben .

Memberships

In 1929 Sloan was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1948 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Works (selection)

  • Dust Storm, Fifth Avenue , 1906, Metropolitan Museum, New York
  • Wake of the Ferry (No. 2) , 1907, The Phillips Collection, Washington
  • The City from Greenwich Village , 1922, National Gallery, Washington

literature

  • John Loughery, John Sloan: Painter and Rebel (1995) ISBN 0-8050-2878-1
  • John Sloan's New York Scene ;: From the Diaries, Notes, and Correspondence, 1906–1913 Harper & Row, (1965)
  • Janice M. Coco, John Sloan's Women: A Psychoanalysis of Vision (2004) ISBN 0-87413-866-3

Web links

Commons : John French Sloan  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Sloan on Drawing and Painting, Courier Dover Publications, 2000, ISBN 978-0-486-40947-4
  2. ^ Members: John Sloan. American Academy of Arts and Letter, accessed April 26, 2019 .
  3. ^ Members of the American Academy. Listed by election year, 1900-1949 ( PDF ). Retrieved October 11, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Sloan, John French
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Lock Haven , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1951
Place of death Hanover , New Hampshire