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John Sloan
1871-1951
Reading in the Subway
1926
etching on paper
10 x 8 1/2 inches (25.3 x 21.7 cm)
Gift of Kraushaar Galleries, New York in Memory of Donald Oresman
2016.19
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Edition of 100, 85 printed.
John Sloan was a member of the Ashcan School of artists, who favored realistic portrayals of daily urban life. Like others in the group, he began his career as an illustrator; the poster behind the woman in this etching, which reads "Rub with Sloan's Ointment," is a wry allusion to his own commercial work. Sloan introduced a note of voyeurism into the scene by emphasizing the light falling on the woman's crossed legs. The artist inscribed several lines of verse by the seventeenth-century poet Sir John Suckling.
John Sloan was a member of the Ashcan School of artists, who favored realistic portrayals of daily urban life. Like others in the group, he began his career as an illustrator; the poster behind the woman in this etching, which reads "Rub with Sloan's Ointment," is a wry allusion to his own commercial work. Sloan introduced a note of voyeurism into the scene by emphasizing the light falling on the woman's crossed legs. The artist inscribed several lines of verse by the seventeenth-century poet Sir John Suckling.
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