Tuesday, September 06, 2022

McSorley's Bar

McSorley's Bar (1912):



by John Sloan, who died on September 7, 1951, of cancer at 80 years of age. from Wikipedia:
Sloan's paintings are represented in almost all major American museums. Among his best-known works are Hairdresser's Window (1907) in the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum, The Picnic Ground (1907) in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Haymarket (1907) in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum, Yeats at Petitpas in the collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, McSorley's Bar (1912) in the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts, The 'City' from Greenwich Village (1922) in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, and The White Way (1927) in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In 1971, his painting Wake of the Ferry (1907) was reproduced on a U.S. postage stamp honoring Sloan.

His students included Peggy Bacon, Aaron Bohrod, Alexander Calder, Reginald Marsh, Barnett Newman, Minna Citron, and Norman Raeben. In 1939, he published a book of his teachings and aphorisms, Gist of Art, which remained in print for over sixty years.

In American Visions, the critic Robert Hughes praised Sloan's art for "an honest humaneness, a frank sympathy, a refusal to flatten its figures into stereotypes of class misery ... He saw his people as part of larger totality, the carnal and cozy body of the city itself." In American Painting from the Armory Show to the Depression, art historian Milton Brown called Sloan "the outstanding figure of the Ash Can School." To his friend, the painter John Butler Yeats, and to art critic Henry McBride, he was "an American Hogarth."

The lobby of the United States Post Office in Bronxville, New York, features a mural by Sloan painted in 1939 and titled The Arrival of the First Mail in Bronxville in 1846 commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. The post office and mural were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988

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11 comments:

  1. A bit like Edward Hopper. Happy T Day 🍵

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  2. ...I like its style.

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  3. I love Sloan's work. Thanks for sharing, Valerie

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  4. He was talented for sure. Thanks for sharing and super perfect for T-day! Happy Tday and hugz

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  5. I saw what CJ wrote and I was actually thinking the same thing before I saw who the artist was. This is a stunning painting and I am glad you introduced me to this awesome artist, dear Nita.

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  6. This is a lovely painting.

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  7. Interesting real life painting, I like it. Happy T Day! Elle/EOTC xx

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  8. I think I have heard of the painting The Hairdresser's Window. I have to go look that one up. Lovely painting for t day. Have a great week.

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  9. Very well done, great details. I hope those two to the right didn´t end up in a fight! ;-)

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  10. Living near Detroit, I often go to the Detroit Inst. of Arts and enjoy looking at that painting. It's fascinating and full of things to notice. Good to see your description of his work.

    best... mae at maefood.blogspot.com

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  11. This is a beautiful piece. Like Mae, I have seen that painting in "person" and I love it very much!

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