The City from Greenwich Village
John Sloan
1922
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 66 × 85.7 cm (26 × 33 3/4 in.) framed: 87.31 × 107.32 × 6.35 cm (34 3/8 × 42 1/4 × 2 1/2 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Helen Farr Sloan
Accession Number
1970.1.1
About the Artist
John Sloan
John French Sloan was born on August 2, 1871, in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Philadelphia, where he taught himself to draw largely through self-study and reproductions before taking evening classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Thomas Anshutz around 1892. That same year he met the painter Robert Henri, who became his closest friend and most influential mentor, enc...