JOHN SLOAN
Turning Out the Light BY JOHN SLOAN JOHN SLOAN is New York’s Hogarth. For years, his studio was near Seventh Avenue, with front windows facing Twenty-third Street, and the back ones looking toward Twenty-fourth Street. In those days-the first decade of the twentieth century-this was in the very heart of New York’s wicked Tenderloin district. …
Subway Stairs BY JOHN SLOAN JOHN SLOAN received part of his early education in the vigorous school of the American newspaper. After courses at the Spring Garden Institute and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, both in Philadelphia, he worked on the illustrating staff of several local newspapers. The power of the press was expressed …
Shine, Washington Square BY JOHN SLOAN WHEN JOHN SLOAN moved over to Washington Square in 1927,he had,as he expresses it, “no good windows”: that is, his windows afforded none of that rich peepshow life that had endowed his pen and brush with so much vitality when he was living on Twenty-third Street. To get subject …
Roofs, Summer Night BY JOHN SLOAN THIS IS SLOAN in his bitterest mood, and though it i~ far from being a mere illustration, Roofs, Summer Night, reminds us that Sloan is a great illustrator. Early in the century, he did some wonderful cartoons for Collins and Harper’s Weekly,but perhaps the best were in Masses. Roofs …
