Self Portrait

Artist John Sloan (American, 1871 - 1951)

Date1924

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsOverall: 20 1/2 x 16 1/2 in. (52.1 x 41.9 cm)

Credit LinePurchased with funds provided by the Friends of the Palmer Museum of Art and the Terra Art Enrichment Fund

Object number93.7

Collections

ClassificationsPainting

Object NamePainting

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

Not on view

Century

Twentieth

Exhibition HistoryFrom the Rooftops: John Sloan and the Art of a New Urban Space, Palmer Museum of Art, February 3–May 12, 2019; The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY, June 16–September 15, 2019 Celebrate the Arts: John Sloan Celebration, John Sloan Fine Arts Center, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, Lock Haven, PA, October 25–26, 1996 As We See Ourselves: Artists' Self-Portraits, Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY, June 22–August 5, 1979 First Annual Sloan Memorial Show, John Sloan Fine Arts Center, Lock Haven State College, Lock Haven, PA, August 7–September 2, 1977 John Sloan in Santa Fe, Lock Haven State College, Lock Haven, PA, April 20–May 2, 1976 American Self-Portraits, 1670–1973, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, 1974 Unknown title, Annie Halenbake Ross Library, Lock Haven, PA, summer 1967 [referenced in Elzea, 1991; see p. 271–72 and 502] John Sloan 1871–1951, Annie Halenbake Ross Library, Lock Haven, PA, May 21–October 30, 1966 American Paintings 1760–1960, Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI, March 3–April 3, 1960 [cat. no. 134, ill.]ProvenanceMr. and Mrs. Harold H. Hicks; unknown method and date of acquisition. Annie Halenbake Ross Library, Lock Haven, PA, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harold H. Hicks, in memory of his mother, Mrs. Edward Hecht, unknown date of gift.Published ReferencesAdam M. Thomas, From the Rooftops: John Sloan and the Art of a New Urban Space (exh. cat.) (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 2019), x (ill., color), 30, 31 (fig. 43), 74. Erin M. Coe, "John Sloan and the Art of a New Urban Space," American Art Review 31, no. 2 (April 2019), 87 (ill.). John Sloan, John Sloan on Drawing and Painting (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2000), cover, 2. John Sloan Celebration (brochure) (Lock Haven, PA: Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, 1996), n.p. (ill.). "John Sloan Portraits: A Family Album," American Art Review (June–July 1994): 116, 117 (ill., color). Sally Atwood, "One Man of the Rebellion," The Penn Stater (May/June 1994): 46 (ill., color), 47–48. Rowland Elzea, John Sloan's Oil Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 2 (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 1991), 271–72 (ill., no. 723). [as "Self-Portrait, Pipe in Mouth"] American Self-Portraits, 1670–1973 (exh. cat.) (Washington, DC: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1974), 134 (no. 60), 135 (ill.).