Catalogue for a full-career retrospective of the American realist artist and illustrator John Sloan (1871-1951). This book features work from the Sloan collection at the Delaware Art Museum.
An American Journey: The Art of John Sloan
And in this vivid account we learn that there was another reason for the young artist to stay home: to help create the political and intellectual ferment that would define bohemian life in New York during the period of labor unrest before ...
A close look at early-20th-century New York City through the eyes of Ashcan artist John Sloan John Sloan (1871-1951) began his career as a commercial newspaper artist in Philadelphia...
"The Ashcan School, also called the Ash Can School, is defined as a realist artistic movement that came into prominence in the United States during the early twentieth century, best...
Theodore Dreiser: An American journey, 1908-1945
60 F. G. Kitton , “ William James Linton , " English Illustrated Magazine 8 ( 1891 ) : 492 , quoted in Smith , Radical Artisan , 48 . 61 Alexander Gilchrist , Life of William Blake , 2 vols . ( London : Macmillan , 1863 ) . Linton ...
Avant-garde art between 1910 and 1950 is well known for its use of "primitive" imagery, often borrowed from traditional cultures in Africa and Oceania. Less recognized, however, is the use...
New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920 Timothy J. Gilfoyle ... 1840 Susan Shannon , 74 Chapel St. ( 5 ) Francis Biddle , Church and Leonard Sts . ( 5 ) Henry Drayton Date of Case 10 April 1842 NOTES ...
Years after the urly December , Alling M. Clements , one of Peters's artist friends whose execution of the image , Peters related to an interviewer just how he came to iad run a similar professional path , wrote an article containing a ...
Manhattan's dreamscape is the largest of the American success stories. Tourists come looking for excitement and a touch of high culture, businessmen come to prove themselves in the world's toughest...