The Work of John Sloan

The Work of John Sloan: “I Have Soaked in Something to Paint”
Thursday, October 14, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM

New York has inspired many works of art, but arguably no artist has embraced the city more passionately than John Sloan—a Philadelphia newspaper illustrator turned painter who depicted New York at the dawn of the 20th Century, when immigrants crowded the Lower East Side, suffragists and socialists marched in the streets, and Greenwich Village was a center for the arts and dissent. On the 150th anniversary of Sloan’s birth, join Manhattan borough historian and Rutgers professor emeritus Robert Snyder for a look at Sloan’s life and art as one of the leading figures of the “Ashcan School,” a loose collection of artists who depicted everyday life in early 1900s New York.

Together, we’ll explore Sloan’s art, his urban vision, his political commitments, and the places where he lived and worked in Manhattan—above all, Greenwich Village. Snyder, who has written widely on New York City, is co-author of Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York.

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