Label TextJohn Sloan was an active member of the group known as "The Eight" who, under the leadership of Robert Henri, can be considered among the founding fathers of modern art in America. The Art Center is fortunate to have the major works by Henri and Prendergast and interesting drawings by Shinn, Davies and Glackens. With the Sloan, the collection has been enriched by the works of a member of that group who has probably the largest and most consistent achievement, the work of an American genre painter who, though thoroughly American, follows in the great European genre tradition of Daumier and Hogarth. Source: Bulletin, November 1959.
Exhibition History"Painters of A New Century: The Eight," Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, Sept. 6 - Nov. 31, 1991, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, Dec. 14, 1991 - Feb. 12, 1992, National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa, April 16 - June 7, 1992, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, July 19, - Sept. 23, 1992
"Selected Works from the Des Moines Art Center's Permanent Collection," Organized by the Waterloo Municipal Galleries, (sponsored by the National Bank of Waterloo), Oct. 24 - Nov. 20, 1983; ( Circulated to: Charles H. MacNider Museum, Mason City, Iowa, Jan. 15 - Feb. 26, 1984; Muscatine Art Center, Iowa, April 1 - May 13, 1984; Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Iowa, May 27 - July 1, 1984; Sioux City Art Center, Iowa, July 15, - Aug. 26, 1984)
"Art in Iowa and the Quad Cities," Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, IA, May 27 - June 24, 1967
"Fourteenth Annual Exhibition of American Painting and Sculpture," Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 29 - Dec. 8, 1901
"Glackens, Henri, Maurer, Fuhr, Sloan, Perrine and Prince," Allan Gallery, N.Y., Apr. 4 - 27, 1901
"Seventieth Annual Exhibition," Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Jan. 14 - Feb. 23, 1901
Published ReferencesTHE NATHAN EMORY COFFIN COLLECTION, a portfolio of fifty selections from the collection, published by the Des Moines Art Center to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Nathan Emory Coffin, 1981, color ill.
DMAC Bulletin, Nov. 1959, cover ill.
Bernard B. Perlman, THE IMMORTAL EIGHT, N.Y., 1962, ref. p.126
"Art In Iowa and the Quad-Cities," Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, IA, 1967, exh. cat. no.70
Bernard B. Perlman, ed., "Revolutionaries of Realism: The Letters of John Sloan and Robert Henri," Princeton University Press, 1997, ref. & b/w ill. p.47, footnote 3, credit line p.viii
DES MOINES ART CENTER: SELECTED PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES AND WORKS ON PAPER, Des Moines Art Center, 1985, ref. pp.198 & 199, b/w ill. pl.130, p.198
AN UNCOMMON VISION: THE DES MOINES ART CENTER, Des Moines Art Center, 1998, ref. & color ill. p.260, color ill. p.261
"Selected Works from the Des Moines Art Center's Permanent Collection," Waterloo Municipal Galleries, IA, 1983, exh. cat. no.34
"Seventieth Annual Exhibition," Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1901, exh. cat. no.47
"Fourteenth Annual Exhibition of American Painting and Sculpture," Art Institute of Chicago, IL, 1901, exh. cat. no.317
Exhibition History"Painters of A New Century: The Eight," Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, Sept. 6 - Nov. 31, 1991, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, Dec. 14, 1991 - Feb. 12, 1992, National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa, April 16 - June 7, 1992, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, July 19, - Sept. 23, 1992
"Selected Works from the Des Moines Art Center's Permanent Collection," Organized by the Waterloo Municipal Galleries, (sponsored by the National Bank of Waterloo), Oct. 24 - Nov. 20, 1983; ( Circulated to: Charles H. MacNider Museum, Mason City, Iowa, Jan. 15 - Feb. 26, 1984; Muscatine Art Center, Iowa, April 1 - May 13, 1984; Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Iowa, May 27 - July 1, 1984; Sioux City Art Center, Iowa, July 15, - Aug. 26, 1984)
"Art in Iowa and the Quad Cities," Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, IA, May 27 - June 24, 1967
"Fourteenth Annual Exhibition of American Painting and Sculpture," Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 29 - Dec. 8, 1901
"Glackens, Henri, Maurer, Fuhr, Sloan, Perrine and Prince," Allan Gallery, N.Y., Apr. 4 - 27, 1901
"Seventieth Annual Exhibition," Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Jan. 14 - Feb. 23, 1901
Published ReferencesTHE NATHAN EMORY COFFIN COLLECTION, a portfolio of fifty selections from the collection, published by the Des Moines Art Center to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Nathan Emory Coffin, 1981, color ill.
DMAC Bulletin, Nov. 1959, cover ill.
Bernard B. Perlman, THE IMMORTAL EIGHT, N.Y., 1962, ref. p.126
"Art In Iowa and the Quad-Cities," Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, IA, 1967, exh. cat. no.70
Bernard B. Perlman, ed., "Revolutionaries of Realism: The Letters of John Sloan and Robert Henri," Princeton University Press, 1997, ref. & b/w ill. p.47, footnote 3, credit line p.viii
DES MOINES ART CENTER: SELECTED PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES AND WORKS ON PAPER, Des Moines Art Center, 1985, ref. pp.198 & 199, b/w ill. pl.130, p.198
AN UNCOMMON VISION: THE DES MOINES ART CENTER, Des Moines Art Center, 1998, ref. & color ill. p.260, color ill. p.261
"Selected Works from the Des Moines Art Center's Permanent Collection," Waterloo Municipal Galleries, IA, 1983, exh. cat. no.34
"Seventieth Annual Exhibition," Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1901, exh. cat. no.47
"Fourteenth Annual Exhibition of American Painting and Sculpture," Art Institute of Chicago, IL, 1901, exh. cat. no.317
DimensionsFrame: 33 1/4 × 41 1/4 × 2 1/2 in. (84.5 × 104.8 × 6.4 cm)
Image (visible): 23 1/2 × 31 1/2 in. (59.7 × 80 cm)
Image (visible): 23 1/2 × 31 1/2 in. (59.7 × 80 cm)
Accession Number 1959.33
Classificationspainting
CopyrightPublic Domain
SignedJohn Sloan 1900 (l,l oil paint)
Catalogue raisonnéElzea 34
ProvenanceArtist; Estate of the Artist; (Kraushaar Galleries, New York); Des Moines Art Center [purchased from previous, 1959]
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