ETCHINGS BY SLOAN
Five Given To Gallery (N.Z. Frets Association! WELLINGTON, April 29 The National Art Galler has received five etchings b the American artist, John Sloan. All were drawn be tween 1906 and 1938. The director of the gallery, Mr S. McLennan, said today the etchings were the gift of the artist’s widow. “This welcome and unexpected gift will form a most valuable addition to the gallery’s collection,” he said. Sloan, who died in 1951, was trained as a newspaper illustrator before the widespread use of the camera and was one of a group dubbed the “Ash Can School” who broke away from the roman tic tradition of the nineteenth century to draw scenes from city life rather than the more acceptable pastoral scenes. The etchings are “Memory" (1906), “A Copyist at the Metropolitan” (1908), “Arch Conspirators” (1917), “Return from Toil” (1915), and “A Thirst for Art” (1938).
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31048, 2 May 1966, Page 6
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