Stein, Profile

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JOHN SLOAN (1871-1951)
Stein, Profile
signed and dated 'John Sloan '05' (lower right)
oil on canvas
36 x 27 in. (91.4 x 68.6 cm.)
Painted in 1904-05.

Provenance

John Sloan Memorial Foundation.
Kraushaar Galleries, New York.
Acquired by the late owners from the above, 1983

Literature

D. Scott, John Sloan, New York, 1975, p. 55, no. 7, illustrated.
R. Elzea, John Sloan’s Oil Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonné, Part 1, Newark, Delaware, 1991, p. 65, no. 60, illustrated.
E. Milroy, Painters of a New Century: The Eight & American Art, exhibition catalogue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1991, p. 25, illustrated.

Exhibited

Portland, Oregon, Lewis and Clark Centennial Exhibition, 1905, no. 186.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 100th Anniversary Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, January 23-March 4, 1905, no. 313.
Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago, 19th Annual Exhibition of American Painting and Sculpture, October 16-November 29, 1906, no. 282.
New York, National Arts Club, Special Exhibition of Contemporary Art, January 4-25, 1908, no. 57.
Lynchburg, Virginia, Randolph-Macon Women’s College, February 1927.
New York, Kraushaar Galleries, John Sloan: Paintings and Drawings, January 11-February 5, 1966, no. 5.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Athens, Georgia, Georgia Museum of Art; San Francisco, California, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum; St. Louis, Missouri, City Art Museum of Saint Louis; Columbus, Ohio, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, John Sloan 1871-1951, September 18, 1971-October 22, 1972, p. 70, no. 24, illustrated.
Hanover, New Hampshire, Dartmouth College, Hood Museum of Art; Lincoln, Massachusetts, De Cordova and Dana Museum and Park; Kalamazoo, Michigan, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts; Madison, Wisconsin, Elvehjem Museum of Art; Dayton, Ohio, Dayton Art Institute; Rochester, New York, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, John Sloan: Paintings, Prints and Drawings, October 2, 1981-January 2, 1983, no. 3, illustrated.
Flint, Michigan, Flint Institute of Arts, 1992-2022, on loan.

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Lot Essay

The present work is the first painting John Sloan completed in New York City. He moved from Philadelphia in 1904, settling into the Sherwood Building where fellow painter Robert Henri lived. The model for the present work, Eugenie "Zenka" Stein was painted by both artists and appears in Henri's Young Woman in White, also of 1904, in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Helen Farr Sloan writes, "Sloan felt that this portrait of Stein standing in profile was an important example of his early New York paintings. He was, in a way, proud that the 1907 jury of National Academy 'fired' this picture. The rejection of work by Sloan, Glackens, Luks, Shinn—and Henri too—became the reason for organization of the Eight exhibition at Macbeth Gallery in 1908." (unpublished letter, June 22, 1983)

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