House in Gloucester
Date1915-1916
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumCharcoal on paper
Dimensionssheet: 8 3/16 × 6 1/2 in. (20.8 × 16.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1980
Object number1980-214.161
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextIn this rapid, skillful sketch, Sloan uses a carefully observed contrast of dark, foreground trees against the faint receding house wall to capture an impression of form and space bathed in light. Sloan rented a house similar to this in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where he summered between 1914 and 1918 in an effort to open up his work to new techniques and subject matter following exposure to European modernism at the momentous Armory Show of 1913.
