John French Sloan
John French Sloan ( born August 2, 1871 in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, † September 7, 1951 in Hanover, New Hampshire ) was an American graphic designer and painter, known for his artistic portrayals 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, the son of James Dixon Sloan and his wife Henrietta (b. Ireland). His father was a carpenter and amateur artist, his mother a teacher at the local girls' school. At Central High School, he was classmate of the later, well-known art collector Albert C. Barnes, the founder of the Barnes Foundation. At the age of 20 years he was an illustrator for the daily newspaper The Philadelphia Inquirer. In the evenings he took classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. There he met his future mentor, Robert Henri in 1892, the author of The Art Spirit.
In 1901 he married "Dolly" (Anna Maria) Wall. 1904 the couple moved to New York and moved into a roof studio in Chelsea. Sloan began to paint typical urban motifs to draw and erase. Since 1906, he taught at the New York School of Art, were among his pupils 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 presented at the same time there are two paintings and five graphics from.
Sloan's style is heavily influenced by European artists of the late 19th and early 20th century, he dealt with the works of Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. Sloan settled in New York's Greenwich Village, where he created, for example, the works of McSorley 's Bar, Sixth Avenue Elevated at Third Street, and Wake of the Ferry. The last years were spent Sloan in Gloucester, Massachusetts, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Sloan was a member of the artist group The Eight; some members, including Sloan, founded in the wake of the New York community of artists Ashcan School. One of his most famous students was Norman Räben.
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