Artwork Details
Artist
Creation Date
Materials
Object Types
Dimensions
24 x 20 in. (canvas) 32 x 28 x 2-3/4 in. (framed)
Mark Description
Signature in yellow ochre paint at lower proper right: John Sloan Inscribed, handwritten in black ink at upper canvas verso: Red Kimona [sic] on the Roof | - John Sloan NY.1912 Inscribed, handwritten in black ink at upper right frame verso: John Sloan [same handwriting as inscription on canvas verso] Stamped, in black ink at lower center-right frame verso, inverted: MIDWTOWN FRAME SHOP | #351 [handwritten in pencil]
Accession Number
Credit Line
James E. Roberts Fund
Copyright
Collection
American Painting and Sculpture 1800-1945
Color Palette
Provenance
Mildred H. Lamb, Cleveland Ohio until May 1927; (Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, New York) 11 December 1941; (Kraushaar Galleries, New York, New York); purchased by the John Herron Art Institute, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1954.
Gallery Labels
This unglorified glimpse of a woman hanging laundry was probably painted from Sloan's studio window.
Sloan was part of a group of artists who became known as the Ashcan School.
Ashcan School artists recorded the bustling activity of New York's lower East Side.
Exhibition History
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
From the Rooftops: John Sloan and the Art of a New Urban Space
The Hyde Collection
June 16, 2019 - September 15, 2019
From the Rooftops: John Sloan and the Art of a New Urban Space
Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University
February 5, 2019 - May 12, 2019
Seeing the City: Sloan's New York
Reynolda House Museum of American Art
October 4, 2008 - January 4, 2009
Seeing the City: Sloan's New York
David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
May 22, 2008 - September 14, 2008
Seeing the City: Sloan's New York
Westmoreland Museum of American Art
February 10, 2008 - April 27, 2008
Seeing the City: Sloan's New York
Delaware Art Museum
October 20, 2007 - January 20, 2008
America: The New World in 19th Century Painting
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere
March 17, 1999 - June 20, 1999
Spectator of Life
Delaware Art Museum
April 26, 1988 - January 1, 1989
Great American Story-Tellers
Oklahoma Art Center
November 9, 1979 - January 13, 1980
Arts Festival: An Exhibition of Drawings and Paintings
DePauw University
April 8, 1962 - May 9, 1962
An Exhibition of American Paintings
Culver Military Academy, Gallery of the Eugene C. Eppley Auditorium
May 22, 1959 - June 9, 1959
The Eight
Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts
February 3, 1958 - February 24, 1958
An Art Exhibition
Purdue University
Dates Unknown
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