John (French) Sloan - Further reading

Artist, born in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, USA. He studied at Philadelphia Spring Garden Institute and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and worked as a commercial artist and newspaper art reporter. Influenced by Robert Henri, and a member of ‘The Eight’, he produced a series of intimate warm-hearted etchings based on New York City life, which gave rise to the name ‘Ashcan school’. Throughout his career he continued to depict his individual visual documentation of life in the metropolis, placing him in the forefront of the American Realist tradition.

John French Sloan (August 2, 1871 - September 8, 1951) was a U.S. artist. He studied art in the evening at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he met his mentor, Robert Henri, author of "The Art Spirit."

Sloan moved to Greenwich Village in New York, where he painted some of his best-known works, including McSorley's Bar, Sixth Avenue Elevated at Third Street and Wake of the Ferry.

Further reading

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 & Coco, John Sloan's Women: A Psychoanalysis of Vision (2004) ISBN 0-87413-866-3