Name: "Hell Hole, " John Sloan, Ashcan Bar, West Village, New York City Nightlife
Brand: John Sloan
Rating: 5 (27 reviews)

"Hell Hole, " John Sloan, Ashcan Bar, West Village, New York City Nightlife

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About the Item

John Sloan Hell Hole, 1917 Etching and aquatint on paper, 1917 8 x 10 inches Second state (of 2), edition of 110 Signed, titled and inscribed "100 proofs" in pencil, lower margin. A very good impression. This impression was printed by Peter Platt, one of Sloan’s favorite and most effective printers. Platt impressions of The Hell Hole are richer and clearer than many of the other impressions of this print (he printed a bit less than half of the edition). Platt tacked the print to a board after printing, and so on impressions that have not been trimmed one typically finds his drying tack holes near the edges of his impressions. Sloan wrote of this etching: “The back room of Wallace’s at Sixth Avenue and West Fourth Street was a gathering place for artists, writers, and bohemians of Greenwich Village." This print was awarded a gold medal at the Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition, Philadelphia, in 1926. This etching represents the back room of Wallace's, a New York bar popular with the actors and artists of the West Village, at Sixth Avenue and West 4th Street. Notable figures pictured in the etching are Eugene O'Neill (background upper right), Peggy O'Neill, no relation to the former (seated at the table beside Eugene O'Neill), René Lacoste (right center) and Charles Ellis (left foreground). Born in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, John Sloan became one of the major early 20th- century figures in New York, pioneering the Social Realist movement with Robert Henri and his circle. He was also an illustrator and early eastern painter in the Southwest. Sloan moved with his family to Philadelphia where he attended Central High School and became a close friend of William Glackens. He worked for a print dealer and as illustrator for the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Press. He also studied at the Pennsylvania Academy with Thomas Anshutz and met Robert Henri. In 1904, he moved to New York and while continuing as an illustrator, became a part of Henri's circle of urban realists. He was an avid walker who continually strolled the streets for subject matter, especially exploring Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side. His work with great humanitarian bent flourished especially during this time because he was so committed emotionally to his subject matter. He joined the Socialist Party in 1910 and espoused utopian ideas of equality but was never a political activist. However, from 1912 to 1916, he was art editor of the party's monthly periodical The Masses, and his skillful illustrations elevated the quality of the publication. The realities of World War I caused him, like so many, to become disenchanted with hard-line socialism. He taught at the Art Students League, and his students included Reginald Marsh, Raphael Soyer, and Alexander Calder. Opposing the traditional hold that the National Academy had over the art world in America, he exhibited as one of "The Eight" in 1908 at the Macbeth Gallery. In 1913, he was much affected by the Armory Show exhibition of modernist painting, particularly the Post-Impressionist, Fauve, and Cubist works and after that year became experimenting with more radical painting styles. He was also an avid etcher. Influenced by his friend Henri, who had spent summers of 1916 and 1917 in New Mexico, Sloan and his wife Dolly first visited Santa Fe in 1919. From that time, he made several painting trips to the Southwest and was active in the Santa Fe colony and in getting other eastern artists to head West. Unlike many of his contemporaries there, he refused to paint romanticized views of the Mexican and Indian culture. He served as President of the Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts in the 1930s and lobbied the Society of Independent Artists to include work by Native Americans in their exhibitions. In 1944, Sloan married Helen Farr, who had been one of his students, and after her husband's death in 1951, she devoted herself to turning his estate into a philanthropic instrument. The largest benefactor was the Delaware Art Museum, which received more than 5000 works including painting representing every phase of his career and his archival papers. With these acquisitions, the Museum became the leading repository for the study of Sloan. In honor of the ongoing support by Helen Farr Sloan, museum representatives named its library the Helen Farr Sloan Library.

Creator:
John Sloan (1832-1932, American)
Creation Year:
1917
Dimensions:
Height: 16 in (40.64 cm)Width: 20 in (50.8 cm)
Medium:
Etching,Aquatint
Movement & Style:
Ashcan School
Period:
1910-1919
Condition:
Excellent.
Gallery Location:
New York, NY
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU115625653342

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