The Wake on the Ferry
1949 · Etching on off-white wove paper
Image/plate: 12.6 × 17.8 cm (5 × 7 1/16 in.); Sheet: 21.8 × 27.4 cm (8 5/8 × 10 13/16 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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John Sloan
Artist
PrintmakingAshcan SchoolArt NouveauRealism
Representation
None documented
29
Institutional Exhibitions
151
Works in Collection
278
Assets Indexed
1
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Publications Referenced
90%
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- • Ashcan School
- • Art Nouveau
- • Realism
- • Social Realism
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Naked/Nude
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1986
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American Prints: 1900�1960; Recent Acquisitions: Illustrated Books
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985–1986
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Art of the Twenties
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979–1980
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New York/New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1978
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Points of View
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1975
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John Sloan was an American painter and printmaker known for urban scenes and social realist subjects rendered in oil and etching. Active in early twentieth-century New York, he documented city life with particular attention to working-class neighborhoods and street activity. His work appeared in the groundbreaking 1908 exhibition at Macbeth Gallery that helped establish American modernism. Sloan's etchings and paintings combined observation with a democratic regard for ordinary subjects often excluded from academic art practice.
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Art Institute of Chicago
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Museum of Modern Art
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