John Sloan, Flowers of Spring, 1924

From the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston:

John Sloan’s fame rests primarily on his robust images of New York City life during the first decades of the twentieth century. Sloan and his wife, Dolly, had moved to New York from Philadelphia in 1904. From 1915 to 1927 their apartment and his studio were on the top floor of 88 Washington Place in Greenwich Village. This studio (and a previous studio on an upper floor) gave Sloan a view of street life from an elevated vantage point, which he frequently incorporated into his paintings. Some of these pictures showed a bird’s eye view, well above the fray. In others, like “Flowers of Spring,” Sloan places the viewer only one or two stories above the street and involves him in the scene - the flower salesman seems to be calling out directly to the spectator. 

 

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