Sixth Avenue PMA(1s)
Week 9 Mrs. Fortescue: “The Girl Needs a Stiff’ner” (1091-1095)03/29- 04/03/2020
ID 1094
John Sloan American 1871 - 1951
Sixth Avenue and Thirtieth Street, New York City , 1907
Oil on canvas
This painting, which depicts an intoxicated woman crossing a street in a state of confusion and disarray, illustrates John Sloan’s compassionate, nonjudgemental approach to the squalor and misery he encountered in the Tenderloin district of Manhattan. The poor woman is framed by the dynamic elevated train and the commercial thoroughfare, which seem to heighten her sense of disorientation. Two young, fashionably dressed woman jeer as they pass by, while the men on the corner look on with smug indifference. Sloan later commented that “this canvas has surely caught the atmosphere of the Tenderloin: drab, shabby, happy, sad, and human.”
Gift of Meyer P. Potamkin and Vivian O. Potamkin
1964-116-5
From the Placard: The Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sloan
www.theartstory.org/artist/sloan-john/
americanart.si.edu/artist/john-sloan-4476
Sixth Avenue PMA(1s)
Week 9 Mrs. Fortescue: “The Girl Needs a Stiff’ner” (1091-1095)03/29- 04/03/2020
ID 1094
John Sloan American 1871 - 1951
Sixth Avenue and Thirtieth Street, New York City , 1907
Oil on canvas
This painting, which depicts an intoxicated woman crossing a street in a state of confusion and disarray, illustrates John Sloan’s compassionate, nonjudgemental approach to the squalor and misery he encountered in the Tenderloin district of Manhattan. The poor woman is framed by the dynamic elevated train and the commercial thoroughfare, which seem to heighten her sense of disorientation. Two young, fashionably dressed woman jeer as they pass by, while the men on the corner look on with smug indifference. Sloan later commented that “this canvas has surely caught the atmosphere of the Tenderloin: drab, shabby, happy, sad, and human.”
Gift of Meyer P. Potamkin and Vivian O. Potamkin
1964-116-5
From the Placard: The Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sloan
www.theartstory.org/artist/sloan-john/
americanart.si.edu/artist/john-sloan-4476