John sloan

“Atmosphere in a painting is nine-tenths fear.” John French Sloan, painter, printmaker

Being ensconced inside a dark bar with a pint and good conversation is many a New Yorker’s idea of heaven. John Sloan may have felt that way too. His famous 1912 painting “McSorleyR…

Passing through Gloucester, 1917 ~ John French Sloan ~ (American: 1871-1951)

Wet Night on the Bowery, John Sloan 1911

Back in January, Linda over at Under the Gables did a blog post about the romance of laundry. She posted a bunch of wonderful images depicting the act of doing laundry. As most of you know I des…

The idea, conceived as a higher form of the Spirit, fully actualized in the artwork and the Beautiful (Hegel)

The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State is organizing a major loan exhibition on American artist John Sloan. "From the Rooftops: John Sloan and the Art of a New Urban Space" will be on ...

Economic differences infuse Sloan’s scene of patrons at a Philadelphia bar. Here, a working-class woman sharing a beer with a companion captures the attention of a lone man who has ordered the more

john sloan

By Wheeler Winston Dixon. Noël Coward once observed that “television is for appearing on – not for looking at,” but as the twenty-first century takes firm hold of our collective consciousness, it seems that everyone has become, in one form or another, a spectator of the events of everyday existence, […]