Ashcan Artist John Sloan

                      American Realism from the Ashcan School

                                                            

 
        Watching the three from his studio at Sixth Avenue and West Fourth Street, Sloan called them      unselfconscious performers in “another of the human comedies which were regularly staged for my enjoyment by the humble roof-top players of Cornelia Street,”

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.   -- Charles Mingus


            “Sunday, Women Drying Their Hair,” from 1912.
                                      John Sloan  Artist