American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture including Property from The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations

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Lot 38
  • 38

John Sloan 1871-1951

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Description

  • John Sloan
  • Gloucester Towers
  • signed John Sloan, l.l.; titled indistinctly Gloucester Towers on the tacking edge; also titled twice Gloucester Towers on the stretcher
  • oil on canvas
  • 16 by 20 in.
  • (40.6 by 50.8 cm)
  • Painted in 1918.

Provenance

Purchased by the current owner's father, New York, circa 1940

Exhibited

New York, Hotel Majestic, First Annual Independent Exhibition of the Work of American Painters, December 1919

Literature

Art News, December 1918
Delaware Art Museum, John Sloan Collection, consignment book
Rowland Elzea, John Sloan's Oil Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 1, Cranbury, New Jersey, 1991, no. 607, p. 221

Catalogue Note

According to Rowland Elzea, "No. 560 has been missing since 1919, and no image of it has been located.  Sloan's file card states, 'Blue-purple towers, red cottage end'" (John Sloan's Oil Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 1, Cranbury, New Jersey, 1991, no. 607, p. 221).