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John Sloan
Swenson's Truck Patch, 1918
Like other urban realists, John Sloan gravitated to artist colonies for the summer months. During World War I, he lived in the cape Anne fishing village of Gloucester, Massachusetts, a long-popular haunt for artists -- including his "Eight" colleague Ernest Lawson, whose harbor scene hangs nearby. It was there that Sloan first began to work outdoors, systematically lightening his palette and embracing a more fluid approach to painting. This brightly colored image of local farmers suggests the influence of European "moderns" such as Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cezanne, whose work Sloan had admired and studied at New York's influential Armory Show a few years earlier. |