John Sloan etching The Wake on the Ferry 1949 Irish Wake New York

Description: John Sloan (American, 1871-1951)The Wake on the Ferry etching on paper, 1949, titled, pencil signed l.r., inscribed "200 proofs," printed by Ernest David Roth Sloan was asked to provide a plate for a special printing to benefit a Arts Students League print sale to members. Charles W. Kraushaar, Jr. advised Sloan against using an existing plate. When the Secretary of the club suggested he make a lithograph from an old oil painting, 'The Wake of the Ferry', Sloan was furious - but also inspired. He decided to create a humorous plate titled 'The Wake on the Ferry', referencing a drunken Irish wake. The Brooklyn Bridge frames the figures in the foreground of the print, though Sloan does not emphasize the bridge as much as he does the city dwellers and their stories. in the collections of The MET, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Art Institute of Chicago visible image measures approximately: 7 3/8" W x 5 5/8" H frame measures approximately: 13 3/4" W x 10 3/4" H Please note that shipping charges are inclusive of insurance, payment processing (if paying by check or cash, processing fee will be refunded) and carrier fees. If local pickup is selected and if applicable, payment processing fee will still be assessed and due. About John Sloan John Sloan was a prominent member of the Ashcan School of painters. Born John French Sloan on August 2, 1871 in Lock Haven, PA, the son of an amateur artist and occasional businessman. In 1876, Sloan moved with his family to Philadelphia and in 1884 enrolled in Central High School. In 1888, Sloan began working for a bookseller and print dealer, and the following year he taught himself how to etch with the aid of Philip Gilbert Hamilton's The Etcher's Handbook. In 1891, Sloan attended drawing classes at the Spring Garden Institute and began to work as a freelance commercial artist. He joined the art department of the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1892, and studied drawing at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. In 1893, he became one of the founders of the Charcoal Club, a group of young artists who broke away from the academy. From 1895 to 1903, Sloan worked for the Philadelphia Press. Inspired by Robert Henri, he started to paint in the late 1890s, beginning with portraits and Philadelphia city scenes. Sloan exhibited for the first time at the Pennsylvania Academy in 1900. Sloan moved to New York in 1904, where began painting the lives of working class people amidst the backdrop of Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side. The artist’s empathy towards his subject’s difficult lives led him to join the Socialist Party in 1910. Sloan began teaching at the Art Students League in 1914 and became a respected teacher; among his students were Alexander Calder, Reginald Marsh, and Barnett Newman. In 1918, he became president of the Society of Independent Artists. Beginning in 1919, he spent summers in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he encountered Native American art and the Mexican muralists Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco. During the late 1920s he began painting nudes and portraits. In 1939 he published a book of his teachings titled Gist of Art. In 1944, after the death of his first wife, Sloan married his student Helen Farr. Sloan died of cancer in Hanover, New Hampshire, on September 7, 1951.

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