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born: Lock Haven, Pa.; 2 August 1871
died: Hanover, N.H.; 7 September 1951
American painter, etcher and lithographer, cartoonist, and illustrator, known for the vitality of his depictions of everyday life in New York City in the early 20th century.
Sloan was a newspaper artist in Philadelphia, where he studied with Robert Henri. He followed Henri to New York, where in 1908 Henri, Sloan, and six others exhibited together as The Eight. Sloan's paintings of urban life gave critics the derogatory phrase: Ashcan School. For most of his life Sloan intermittently taught and illustrated socialist articles for: The Masses. In 1938 he wrote: The Gist of Art.
His best known period was from 1900 to 1920 during which he drew his inspiration directly from life, primarily the New York scene. These pictures tend to be of the working class. Sometimes he created a work that evokes a mood of romantic melancholy, and sometimes he became satiric. Late in life Sloan returned to the Art Nouveau motifs which had characterized his early work.
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