Wednesday, April 20, 2022 – Wonderful paintings of the New York scene
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 2022
654th Issue
JOHN SLOAN
NEW YORK ARTIST
EPHEMERAL NEW YORK
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IMAGES IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN
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What John Sloan saw on the night before Easter
April 18, 2022
From Ephemeral New York
Easter Sunday has just passed, so I wish I came across this painting earlier this week in time to write about it. But maybe it doesn’t matter, because through the eyes and Impressionist brush of John Sloan, this 1907 work is a timeless nocturne of a seemingly ordinary transaction.
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We’re probably in Greenwich Village, where Sloan lived and worked. Easter lilies are laid out in front of a shop for passersby to inspect, pick through, and make their selection. These sidewalk shoppers are shrouded in darkness, practically obscured by the black umbrella one carries.
But as they touch the flowers, you can feel the softness of the petals and sense how bright they must have looked illuminated by the artificial light of the store window. The rain-slicked sidewalk and the warm light from the cafe next door makes it an even more potent, sensuous image of the simple act of purchasing flowers on a rainy spring night.
Two decades later, Sloan painted another scene of spring flowers and a wet sidewalk that is equally evocative.
Yeats at Petitpas 1910 John Sloan.jpg
Sixthaveatfourteenth FAP John Sloan.jpg
a scene in Manhattan, NYC painted while Sloan was working for the Federal Arts Project as documented in the GSA film at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfOOhPE166k
John Sloan – Sun And Wind On The Roof.jpg
Red Kimono on the Roof by John Sloan.jpg
A woman hanging laundry wearing a red kimono.
The Wake of the Ferry II, John Sloan, 1907 – Phillips Collection – DSC04957.JPG
Sloan fifth avenue-new-york.jpg
John Sloan – Throbbing Fountain, Madison Square (1907).jpg
Pile Driver by John French Sloan.jpg
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George Washington Bridge with a main arch over the Harlem River; secondary arch over the Metro-North Railroad and Major Deegan Expressway in the Bronx
NEW CHERRY TREES PLANTED ON THE ISLAND
Our latest donation from Material From the Arts includes a dozen Prunus sub Double Weeping Higan Cherry trees. They will bloom like the one on the right next spring. They are planted on the west promenade in front of Coler. Thanks to the anonymous donor.
Text by Judith Berdy
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