id: 140161
accession number: 1964.160
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A Woman's Work, 1912. John Sloan (American, 1871–1951). Oil on canvas; framed: 97.2 x 82.2 x 6.4 cm (38 1/4 x 32 3/8 x 2 1/2 in.); unframed: 80.3 x 65.4 cm (31 5/8 x 25 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Amelia Elizabeth White 1964.160 © Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
title: A Woman's Work
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creation date: 1912
creation date earliest: 1912
creation date latest: 1912
current location: 208 American Gilded Age and Realism
creditline: Gift of Amelia Elizabeth White
copyright: © Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: American Painting and Sculpture
collection: American - Painting
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* John Sloan (American, 1871–1951) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 97.2 x 82.2 x 6.4 cm (38 1/4 x 32 3/8 x 2 1/2 in.); Unframed: 80.3 x 65.4 cm (31 5/8 x 25 3/4 in.)
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inscription: Signed lower right: "John Sloan -"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review (1964)
opening date: 1964-12-08T05:00:00
Year in Review (1964). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1964-January 31, 1965).
title: American Cities: The Artist's View
opening date: 1989-10-17T04:00:00
American Cities: The Artist's View. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 17, 1989-January 7, 1990).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* Group Exhibition. MacDowell Club, New York, NY (17-29 April 1913); see Elzea, pp. 116 and 449.
Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Etchings by John Sloan. Kraushaar Galleries, New York, NY (19 March-7 April 1917); no. 11.
Exhibition of Paintings by George Luks, Augustus Vincent Tack and John Sloan. Wisconsin Art Institute, Milwaukee, WI (March 1918).
Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture by Members of the Club. Whitney Studio Club, New York, NY (20 March-20 April 1921).
Sculpture, Painting, and Crafts by Greenwich Village Artists. Greenwich House, New York, NY (24 April-2 May 1922); no. 50; see Elzea's publication.
120th Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (8 February-29 March 1925); no. 236.
Annual Exhibition of Recent American Paintings. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (13 October-9 November 1925); no. 23.
John Sloan: Paintings, Etchings, and Drawings. Wanamaker Galleries, New York, NY (4 November-? December 1939); traveled to Wanamaker Galleries, Philadelphia, PA (8-29 January 1940); no. 41.
Then and Now. Park Avenue Gallery, New York, NY (7-19 October 1940); see Elzea's publication.
John Sloan. Martha White Memorial Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (15-29 August 1942); see Elzea's publication.
30th Annual Exhibition: Painters and Sculptors of the Southwest. Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM (1 August-15 September 1943), cat. no. 173.
John Sloan: Paintings, Prints, Drawings. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (2 October 1981-3 January 1982); traveled to Decordova and Dana Museum and Park, Lincoln, MA (23 January-7 March 1982); to Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI (18 March-2 May 1982); to Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (12 June-1 August 1982); to Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH (11 September-24 October 1982); to Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY (6 November 1982-2 January 1983), cat. no. 15, pp. 17-20, 22, 52-53, illus. p. 53.
American Cities: The Artist's View. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (17 October 1989-7 January 1990).
America in Art: Fifty Great Paintings Celebrating Fifty Years. Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA (6 June-11 August 1991) pp. 8-11, 98-99, illus. p. 99, no cat. no.
American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 1885-1915. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (2 May-24 July 1994); to Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (6 March-14 May 1995); pp. 286-291, illus. fig. no. 294.
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PROVENANCE
Sold c. 1939-1940 to Amelia White, Santa Fe.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Sloan, John. Gist of Art . New York: 1944.
page number: Reproduced: p.229
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Sloan, John. John Sloan. New York, NY: American Artists Group, 1945.
page number: Reproduced: p.45 (unpaginated)
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Brooks, Van Wyck. John Sloan: A Painter's Life. London, United Kingdom: J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1955.
page number: Reproduced: Image reproductions between pp.182-183
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"Year in Review for 1964." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art (December, 1964)
page number: Mentioned: p.264; Reproduced: p.251, n.87
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Sloan, John. John Sloan's New York Scene from the Diaries, Notes, and Correspondence 1906-1913. ed. Bruce St. John. New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1965.
page number: Mentioned: pp.609
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Cleveland Museum of Art, “On Our Cover…,” January 7, 1965, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr1316
"Reports of the Departments: Paintings." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art (June, 1965).
page number: Mentioned: pp.143-144
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Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of The Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland: Press of Western Reserve University, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p.191
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n215
Wade, Richard C., Howard B. Wilder, and Louise C. Wade. A History of the United States. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p.484
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"Recent Acquisitions in the American Field." Art in America 54 (May-June, 1966).
page number: Reproduced: p.46
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Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p.191
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n215
Time-Life Editors. American Painting 1900-1970. New York, NY: Time-Life Books, 1970.
page number: Mentioned: p.13; Reproduced: p.12
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St. John, Bruce. John Sloan. New York, NY: Praeger Publishers, 1971.
page number: Reproduced: n.39
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Holcomb III, Grant. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of John Sloan. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Delaware, 1972.
page number: Mentioned: pp.499-500; Reproduced: p.501
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Price, Vincent. The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art. Waukesha, WI: Country Beautiful Corporation, 1972.
page number: Reproduced: p.195
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Adams, Celeste, Rita Myers, and Adele Z. Silver. An Introduction to American Art in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1972.
page number: Mentioned: p.16; Reproduced: p.17
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"A Check List: American Paintings and Water Colors of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Early Twentieth Centuries in The Cleveland Museum of Art." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art (January, 1973).
page number: Mentioned: p.33
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Sharp Young, Mahonri. American Realists: Homer to Hopper. New York, NY: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1977.
page number: Mentioned: pp.161-162; Reproduced: p.168
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Lucie-Smith, Edward, and Celestine Dars. Work and Struggle: The Painter As Witness 1870-1914. New York, NY: Paddington Press; Distributed by Grosset & Dunlap,1977.
page number: Reproduced: n.198
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Johnson, Mark M. "American Landscapes... Scenes as Divergent as the Land Itself." Arts and Activities 82, no. 4 (December 1977).
page number: Mentioned: p.31; Reproduced: p.30
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p.238
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n258
Hills, Patricia. "John Sloan's Images of Working Class Women: A Case Study of the Roles and Interrelationships of Politics, Personality, and Patrons in the Development of Sloan's Art, 1905-16." Prospect 5 (October 1980).
page number: Mentioned: p.175; Reproduced: p.214
url: https://www.academia.edu/37112545/_John_Sloans_Images_of_Working_Class_Women_A_Case_Study_of_the_Roles_and_Inter_Relationships_of_Politics_Personality_and_Patrons_in_the_Development_of_Sloans_Art_1905_1916_
Unger, Irwin. These United States, The Question of Our Past. Vol. 2. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co., 1982.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p.596
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Silver, Adele Z. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Guide to the Galleries. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981.
page number: Mentioned: p.84; Reproduced: p.85
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"In the Background: The Ashcan School." The Great Artists, Their Lives, Works, and Inspiration: Hopper. London: Marshall Cavendish Ltd., 1986. Vol.4, Part 88.
page number: Reproduced: p.2812
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Elzea, Rowland. John Sloan's Oil Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonné. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 1991.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: pp.115-116
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.
page number: Reproduced: p.144
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Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in The Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993.
page number: Reproduced: p.224
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Garraty, John A. Story of America. 1994.
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Amon Carter Museum. "American Impressionists, American Realists: In Search of the New". Educational video (April 1994).
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Updike, John. "Beyond the Picturesque." The New York Review. June 23,1994.
page number: Mentioned: pp.21, 23; Reproduced: p.21
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Loughery, John. John Sloan: Painter and Rebel. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 1995.
page number: Mentioned: p.347
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Elements of Literature, Grade 9. New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 2000.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p.T203
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Perlman, Bennard B. American Artists, Authors, and Collectors: The Walter Pach Letters 1906-1958. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002.
page number: Reproduced: p.379
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Bender, Thomas. The Unfinished City: New York and the Metropolitan Idea. New York, NY: The New Press, 2002.
page number: Mentioned: pp.110-111; Reproduced: p.111
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Kramer, Karen and Alexandra Lerman."The Ballad of Greenwich Village."(New York, 2003?) independent documentary.
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Foa, Emma. Artists in Their Time: Edward Hopper. New York, NY: Franklin Watts, 2003.
page number: Reproduced: p.7
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Curry, David Park. James Mcneill Whistler: Uneasy Pieces. Richmond, VA: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in association with Quantuck Lane Press, 2004.
page number: Mentioned: pp.85-86; Reproduced: p.86, n.3.25
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Updike, John. Still Looking: Essays on American Art. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
page number: Mentioned: pp.110,118; Reproduced: p.111
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Coyle, Heather Campbell and Joyce K. Schiller. John Sloan's New York. Wilmington, DE: Delaware Art Museum, 2007.
page number: Mentioned: p.92; Reproduced: p.94
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Cole, Mark, "A Paramount Picture", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 47 no. 01, January 2007
page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 9
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2007-01/page/8
Adams, Henry. What's American about American Art? A Gallery Tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008.
page number: Mentioned: p.111; Reproduced: p.110
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Pohl, Frances K. Framing America: A Social History of American Art . New York, NY: Thames and Hudson, 2008.
page number: Mentioned: p.336; Reproduced: p.336, n.6.19
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Dearinger, David B. George Deem: The Art of Art History. Boston, MA: The Boston Athenaeum, 2012.
page number: Reproduced: p.33
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Litt, Steven. "Close Up." The Plain Dealer, September 23, 2012.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p.E6
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Roehrl, Boris. World History of Realism in Visual Arts, 1830-1990 Hildesheim, Germany: Georg Olms Verlag, 2013.
page number: Mentioned: p.131-132; Reproduced: p.132
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Roehrl, Boris. Realismus in der bildenden Kunst. Europa und Nordamerika 1830 bis 2000. Berlin, Germany: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2013.
page number: Mentioned: pp.79-80; Reproduced: p.80
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Griffin, Patrick. America's Revolution. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013
page number: Reproduced: p.44
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Henretta, James A., Rebecca Edwards, and Robert O. Self. America's History. 7th ed. Boston, MA and New York, NY: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2014.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p.583
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Belasco, Susan and Link Johnson, eds. The Bedford Anthology of American Literature: Beginnings to the Present. Shorter Second Edition. Boston, MA and New York, NY: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2014.
page number: Mentioned: p.1131; Reproduced: p.1130
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Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 55
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Friese-Oertmann, Sabine. Arbeiter in Malerei und Fotografie des 19. Jahrhunderts: Deutschland, Großbritannien, USA. Berlin: Reimer, 2017.
page number: Reproduced: p 200, Abb.135
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Slayton, Robert A. Beauty in the City: The Ashcan School. Albany, NY: Excelsior Editions, State University of New York Press, 2017.
page number: Mentioned: pp.112-113; Reproduced: p.113, no.7.8
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Custer, Lee Ann, "The Clean, Open Air of John Sloan's Tenement Paintings," American Art 37 (Summer 2023)
page number: Mentioned pp. 30-31, 40-46, 50; reproduced p. 40.
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