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John French Sloan ( August 2 , 1871 - September 8 , 1951 ) was a U.S. artist. He was born in Lock Haven, PA., to a businessman father and a schoolteacher mother. At the age of 20, he became an illustrator with '' The Philadelphia Inquirer ''. 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''. In later years, he spent summers working and painting in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

He was member of The Eight and co-founded the Ashcan School .


FURTHER READING

  • John Loughery, ''John Sloan: Painter and Rebel '' (1995) ISBN 0805028781

  • ''John Sloan's New York Scene;: From the Diaries, Notes, and Correspondence, 1906-1913'' Harper & Row, (1965)

  • Janice M. Coco, ''John Sloan's Women: A Psychoanalysis of Vision '' (2004) ISBN 0874138663



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