Two Sisters

Artist John Sloan (American, 1871 - 1951)

Date1925

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsOverall: 30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm), frame: 35 7/8 x 45 5/8 x 1 7/8 in. (91.1 x 115.9 x 4.8 cm)

Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer

Object number2019.112

Collections

American

ClassificationsPainting

Object NamePainting

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

On view

Century

Twentieth

More Information

Signedbottom right: John Sloan -

Inscribedstretcher: John Sloan Sisters (30 x 40 SF 25)

Exhibition HistoryInaugural Installation: 20th Century American Galleries (112), Palmer Museum of Art, June 1, 2024–present. Conversations across the Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 7–May 14, 2023. An American Place: Selections from the James and Barbara Palmer Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, January 29–May 1, 2022. An Intimate Eye: Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, Palmer Museum of Art, January 18–May 15, 2005. Making Faces: A Selection of Portraits by John Sloan, Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA, May 20–August 19, 2001; Kraushaar Galleries, New York, September 14–October 27, 2001. First Annual Sloan Memorial Show, Lock Haven State College, Lock Haven, PA, August 7–September 2, 1977. The John Sloan Exhibit, Lock Haven State College, Lock Haven, PA, 1970. John Sloan, Arnot Art Gallery, Elmira, NY, November 9–December 7, 1969. John Sloan Paintings, Pennsylvania Military College, Chester, PA, May 1–June 19, 1967. John Sloan, Delaware Art Center, Wilmington, DE, June 16–July 10, 1966. John Sloan, Cummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville, FL, November 15–December 15, 1963; Hunter Gallery of Art, Chattanooga, TN, January 1–31, 1964; Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, Savannah, GA, February 15–March 15, 1964; Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH, April 1–30, 1964; Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, May 15–June 15, 1964; Fine Arts Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, July 1–31, 1964; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA, August 15–September 15, 1964; Phoenix Art Museum, October 1–31, 1964; Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, November 20, 1964–January 3, 1965; Hecksher Museum, Huntington, NY, January 17–February 15, 1965; Lamont Art Gallery, Exeter, NH, March 1–31, 1965; Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, April 18–May 16, 1965. John Sloan, University of Missouri Art Department, Columbia, December 1940. Exhibition of Works by the Living Artist Members of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, November 13, 1930–May 15, 1931. A Collection of Paintings by John Sloan, C. W. Kraushaar Galleries, New York, January 26– February 12, 1926.ProvenanceThe artist Estate of the artist John Sloan Trust, Wilmington, DE, 1971 Annie Halenbake Ross Library, Lock Haven, PA, by 1978 Kennedy Galleries, New York Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, acquired in 1984 from Kennedy Galleries Palmer Museum of Art, bequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer, 2019Published ReferencesJoyce Henri Robinson, "University Park, Pennsylvania—An American Place: Selections from the James & Barbara Palmer Collection," American Art Review 33, no. 4 (2021): 114, 117 (ill.). Joyce Henri Robinson, ed., A Gift From the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 2013), 46 (fig. 14), 47, 204 (ill., color), 205. An Intimate Eye (brochure) (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 2005), 14 (no. 65). Making Faces: A Selection of Portraits by John Sloan (exh. cat.) (Columbus, GA: Columbus Museum, 2001), 4, 6–7, 18 (ill., color), 23 (no. 11). Rowland Elzea, John Sloan’s Oil Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 2 (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 1991), 279 (ill., no. 751). Bruce St. John, John Sloan (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971), 46, n.p. (ill., no. 59). The John Sloan Exhibit (brochure) (Lock Haven, PA: Lock Haven State College, 1970), 11 (no. 6), 15 (ill.). Grant Holcomb III, A Check List for John Sloan’s Paintings (Lock Haven, PA: Annie Halenbake Ross Library, 1970), 32. Bruce St. John, John Sloan (Wilmington: Delaware Art Center, 1963), 7, 13 (no. 25), 20 (ill.). New Mexico Artists, Series No. 3 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1952), 11 (ill.). Isabel Stevenson Monro and Kate M. Monro, Index to Reproductions of American Paintings: A guide to pictures occurring in more than eight hundred books (New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1948), 587. Sloan Inventory (Delaware: Delaware Art Museum, 1941), no. 958. John Sloan, Gist of Art (New York: American Artists Group, 1939), 281 (ill.) A Catalogue of an Exhibition of Works by the Living Artist Members of the National Institute of Arts and Letters (New York: American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1930), 28 (no. 144). Catalogue of A Collection of Paintings by John Sloan (brochure) (New York: C. W. Kraushaar Art Galleries, 1926), n.p. (no. 4).