Artwork Details
24 x 20 in. (canvas) 32 x 28 x 2-3/4 in. (framed)
Mark DescriptionSignature 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 NumberJames E. Roberts Fund
CopyrightAmerican Painting and Sculpture 1800-1945
Color PaletteMildred 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.
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 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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