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Turning Out the Light
19057 3/4 x 11 5/16 in. (19.7 x 28.7 cm)
John Sloan
American (Lock Haven, PA, 1871 - 1951, Hanover, NH)
Object Type:
Print
Medium and Support:
Etching
Credit Line:
Marion Stratton Gould Fund
Accession Number:
1991.22
Location: Not currently on view
Edition: ?/100
For centuries, New York and Paris have shared a reputation as centers of vice and licentious behavior. While John Sloan’s tender print of a bedtime moment in a New York tenement seems far removed from the ubiquitous and explicit displays of contemporary sexuality, the image was firmly rejected for the American Water Color Society’s 1906 exhibition as being ‘vulgar’ and ‘indecent.’
Sloan was part of a group of artists later called the Ashcan School, who did not shy away from subjects that other artists found unworthy or unattractive. Because so many of the artists, among them Sloan, had difficulty exhibiting their work due to their choice of subject matter and their idiosyncratic styles, they mounted their own exhibition in 1908 at Macbeth Gallery in New York City and were subsequently referred to as The Eight.
[Label text, 2003]
Sloan was part of a group of artists later called the Ashcan School, who did not shy away from subjects that other artists found unworthy or unattractive. Because so many of the artists, among them Sloan, had difficulty exhibiting their work due to their choice of subject matter and their idiosyncratic styles, they mounted their own exhibition in 1908 at Macbeth Gallery in New York City and were subsequently referred to as The Eight.
[Label text, 2003]
Bibliography
See general reference: "Americans at Home and Abroad: Graphic Arts, 1855-1975," Madison, WI, 1976: cat. no. 34, p. 23, repr. p. 39
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- From Hassam to Hopper: Prints of New York City Memorial Art Gallery 2/3/1995 - 5/7/1995
- All Around the Town: Artists' New York Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester 8/1/2003 - 11/9/2003
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Peter Morse. John Sloan's Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Etchings, Lithographs, and Posters. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1969.
- John Sloan 1871-1951. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1971.
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