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John Sloan: Painter and Rebel
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Documenting New York City's cultural coming-of-age, a historical biography of an American painter and propagandist reveals the social and political scene of the early 1900s, including Sloan's activist wife, Dolly.
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Paperback, 438 pages
Published
March 1st 1997
by Owl Publishing Company
(first published July 1995)
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Look up Sloan's "In the Back Room of McSorley," (described in Joseph Mitchell's essay about the famous bar, "The Old Place at Home," both portrayed with the same sense of restrained melancholy and admiration) and "In the Wake of the Ferry," for evidence that Sloan was much more than a topical illustrator of street life in NYC. Though I find fellow Ashcan artist George Bellows more stirring and dramatic on a purely visual level, Sloan subtly plumbs the inner depths of his subjects to greater effe
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I don't know that I've ever read anything about an artist before--is that strange?
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