"This book is the most comprehensive pictorial survey of Sloan's work to date. Over 120 black and white reproductions and 48 full color plates include the early newspaper illustrations, the decorative posters, the carefully modeled, solid forms of the early portraits, the earthy realism of the city-life paintings, the vigor of the New York etchings and paintings depicting “the seething tenderloin,” the graphic power of the socialist drawings, the calmer landscapes of Gloucester and the scenes of New Mexico, and finally the culmination of his style in the vivid intensity of the late nudes and portraits. Mr. Scott’s essay documents the full flavor and variety of Sloan’s artistic life: his first illustrations for greeting cards and valentines in Philadelphia; the newspaper days and the artists who moved from paper to paper and who were later to form the nucleus of The Eight; the move to New York, the Independents, the Armory Show, and the great artistic revolution; the call to socialism; the trips away; and the ultimate struggle for artistic realization."--Dust jacket flap.
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