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John French Sloan (August 2, 1871 – September 7, 1951) was an American painter and etcher. He is considered to be one of the founders of the Ashcan school of American art. He was also a member of the group known as The Eight .
John French Sloan, McSorley's Bar, 1912, Detroit Institute of Arts. John Sloan (1871–1951) was an early-20th-century Realist of the Ashcan school, whose concerns with American social conditions led him to join the Socialist Party in 1910. [4] Originally from Philadelphia, he worked in New York after 1904.
W. & J. Sloane advertisement from September 1902. W. & J. Sloane, (W&J Sloane, Sloane's), was a chain of furniture stores that originated from a luxury furniture and rug store in New York City that catered to the prominent, including the White House and the Breakers, and wealthy, including the Rockefeller, Whitney, and Vanderbilt families.
John Sloan was a leading member of the Ashcan School. The Ashcan School, also called the Ash Can School, was an artistic movement in the United States during the late 19th-early 20th century [1] that produced works portraying scenes of daily life in New York, often in the city's poorer neighborhoods. The artists working in this style included ...
"He was an accidental member of The Eight," John Sloan remarked in the late 1940s when he cast a vote against Shinn's nomination for membership in the Institute of Arts and Letters. [19] Shinn's commitment to the high life and to interior decoration rubbed a Socialist and true urban realist like Sloan the wrong way.
Red Kimono on the Roof is an oil painting by American artist John Sloan, located in the Indianapolis Museum of Art, which is in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.Painted in 1912, its down-to-earth subject matter and execution make it an excellent example of the work of the Ashcan School, which was active in New York City in the early years of the twentieth century.
Backstairs at the White House is a 1979 NBC television miniseries based on the 1961 book My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House by Lillian Rogers Parks (with Frances Spatz Leighton). The series, produced by Ed Friendly Productions, is the story of behind-the-scenes workings of the White House and the relationship between the staff and ...
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