Sloan JohnSt. John Bruce - New York scene: 1906-1913

NEW YORK SCENE 1906-1913

Scrubwomen in the Old Astor Library, 1910

JOHN SLOAN

BRUCE ST. JOHN, editor

With a new introduction by Herbert I. London

Originally published in 1965 by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.

Published 2013 by Transaction Publishers

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Library of Congress Catalog Number: 2012014750

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Sloan, John, 18711951.
New York scene: 19061913 / John Sloan; Bruce St. John, editor, with a new
introduction by Herbert I. London.
pages cm
Reprint of: John Sloans New York scene. -- New York : Harper & Row,
1965.
ISBN 978-1-4128-4259-4
1. Sloan, John, 18711951--Diaries. 2. Artists--United States--Diaries.
3. New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--20th century. I. Title.

ND237.S57A2 2013
759.13--dc23
[B]
2012014750

The Diary

: Scrubwomen in the Old Astor Library, 1910. Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York

: Sunset, West Twenty Third Street, 1906. The Joslyn Art Museum

: Memory, 1906. The Kraushaar Galleries

: Making Faces, 1907. From the Collection of Gerald Bordman

: Colliers play cover, October 13, 1906. From the John Sloan Collection, Delaware Art Center

: Dolly Walks with Us, by Robert Henri. From the John Sloan Collection, Delaware Art Center

: Kent Crane, 1906. From the Estate of John Sloan

: Dust Storm, Fifth Avenue, 1906. Oil. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, George A. Hearn Fund, 1921

: Miss Hoch, 1906. From the Estate of John Sloan

: Stein and Press, 1900. From the Collection of the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario

: Robert Henri, 1905. Etching. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dodson Fund, 1931

: Ferry Slip, Winter, 1905-6. From the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection

: My Dad, 1906. From the John Sloan Collection, Delaware Art Center

: Collicks, The National Weekly, (signed) Mary Kippered Herring, by Robert Henri. From the John Sloan Collection, Delaware Art Center

: Mother, 1900. Etching. The Kraushaar Galleries

: Reading the Evidence, or Mrs. Sloan at Home, February, 1907, by Robert Henri. From the John Sloan Collection, Delaware Art Center

: Dolly with the Black Bow, 1909. Oil. Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, gift of Miss Amelia Elizabeth White

: Throbbing Fountain, Madison Square, 1907. Private Collection

: Haymarket, 1907. The Brooklyn Museum

: Gray and Brass, 1907. From the Collection of Lincoln Isham

: Gentlemen, I intend buying some of your pictures if my wife likes them, by Robert Henri. From the John Sloan Collection, Delaware Art Center

: William S. Walsh, 1908. The Kraushaar Galleries

: Coytesville Palisades, 1908. Owned by the Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, Delaware Art Center

: South Beach Bathers,"1907-8. From the Collection of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

: Albert E. Ullman, 1907-8. The Kraushaar Galleries

: The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, August, 1909

: Chinese Restaurant, 1909. Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester

: Girl in Fur Hat, 1909. From the Collection of the New Britain Museum of American Art

: My Two Friends, Yeats and Henri, 1910. From a Private Collection

: Self Portrait, 1909-12. From the John Sloan Collection, Delaware Art Center

: The Mademoiselles Petitpas, by John Butler Yeats. From the John Sloan Collection, Delaware Art Center

: Yolande in Large Hat, 1909-10. From the Estate of John Sloan.

: Fifth Avenue, 1909. From the Collection of Mrs. John F. Kraushaar

: The Hanging Committee, N.A.D. From the John Sloan Collection, Delaware Art Center

: John Sloan, by John Butler Yeats. From the John Sloan Collection, Delaware Art Center

: Dolly Sloan, by John Butler Yeats. From the John Sloan Collection, Delaware Art Center

: The Coburn Players, 1910. From the Collection of the Dayton Art Institute

: Yeats at Petitpas , 1910. In the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art

: Isadora Duncan, 1911. The Kraushaar Galleries

: George Arliss in Disraeli. From the John Sloan Collection, Delaware Art Center

: Savings Bank, 1911. From the Collection of Dr. Irving Levitt

: Colliers, The National Weekly, December 2, 1911

: Six Oclock, Winter, 1912. The Phillips Collection, Washington

: Anshutz on Anatomy, 1912. The Kraushaar Galleries

: Renganeschis Saturday Night, 1912. The Art Institute of Chicago

: McSorleys Back Room, 1912. Dartmouth College

Photographs following page so:

February 1 and 2, 1908, diary pages. From the John Sloan Collection, Delaware Art Center.

The Eight. From the John Sloan Collection, Delaware Art Center.

John Sloan in studio, 705 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 1892-3.

From the John Sloan Collection, Delaware Art Center.

Sloan in studio, 806 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. From the John Sloan Collection, Delaware Art Center.

John Sloan and Helen Farr Sloan painting in their Hotel Chelsea studio, 1950. From the John Sloan Collection, Delaware Art Center.

John Sloan and Thomas Anshutz. From the John Sloan Collection, Delaware Art Center.

Robert Henri and William Glackens. From the John Sloan Collection, Delaware Art Center.

Sunday, October 7, 1906, at Coney Island. From the John Sloan Collection, Delaware Art Center.

Cousin Eleanor Sloan, her mother Mrs. Albert Sloan, Dolly Sloan, and Mrs. Lee, Henris mother. From the John Sloan Collection, Delaware Art Center.

Luks in prize fight.

John Sloan and his father and mother in garden of Camac Street house, Philadelphia, circa 1897. From the John Sloan Collection, Delaware Art Center.

Dolly Sloan. From the John Sloan Collection, Delaware Art Center.

Bessie Sloan. From the John Sloan Collection, Delaware Art Center.

Marianna Sloan. From the John Sloan Collection, Delaware Art Center.

John Sloans mother, December 25, 1906. From the John Sloan Collection, Delaware Art Center.

John Sloan, 1950. From the John Sloan Collection, Delaware Art Center.

Although I was never privileged to know John Sloan personally I feel as if I knew him well, since I have spent many hours with his library, studying his notes and comments and his diaries. My studies have given me the feelings of respect and admiration for him that were shared by his friends and students. I know, too, that he was a direct and honest man, not afraid of expressing his opinions. In his day, when a newspaper wanted a thoughtor argument-provoking comment on the art world, it knew it could get a good one from John Sloan.