Starting on October 17, 2007, the Delaware Art Museum will be the host of an impressive exhibition, titled " Seeing the City: Sloan's New York", a rich and in-depth study of John Sloan's images of New York City. Several works have been chosen from the rich collection of the Delaware Art Museum, most of them real masterpieces of John Sloan, as well as several loans from prestigious museums and collectors.
For John Sloan New York City was not only a source of inspiration and his favourite city, but a huge and complex world, an universe in itself, waiting to be discovered in it's many aspects, and later caught on paper or canvas. The curators have chosen thos paintings, drawings and prints that build a complete and detailled image of how Sloan viewed New York.
John Sloan, The City from Greenwich Village, oil on canvas, 1922
Thus the public will have the unique chance of discovering and understanding how John Sloan created his compositions, which were his techniques, how he prepared his more ambitios canvases using drawings, sketches and photographs, focusing both on the architectural details and New York City and it's vibrant life.
Photo : www.nga.gov
May 2007
