John Sloan, Yeats at Petitpas, 1910
This scene shows a lively gathering of poets and artists at Petitpas', a French restaurant and boarding house in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. Around the table, from left to right, are literary critic Van Wyck Brooks; painter John Butler Yeats; poet Alan Seeger; the artist's wife, Dolly Sloan; Celestine Petipas (standing); fiction writer Robert Sneddon; miniaturist Eulabee Dix; John Sloan, the artist (corner); Fred King, the editor of Literary Digest; and in the foreground Vera Jelihovsky Johnston, wife of Irish scholar Charles Johnston.
Connected to the Ashcan school - a group of urban realists who espoused the idea of "art for the sake of life" rather than "art for the sake of art" - John Sloan was known for his scenes of everyday life. This lively depiction of gathered artists and friends comes from that context, as gatherings such as these were common at the time.
John French Sloan (Lock Haven, August 2, 1871 - Hanover, September 7, 1951) was an American painter and printmaker. His work is considered to belong to the American realism. He belonged to the Ashcan School.
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