Art has a way of disappearing. Paintings are fragile, photographs fade, and even work made from durable stone and metal requires maintenance and care. But sometimes it just vanishes: off walls, out of ...
Did genre painting exist in the early twentieth century? This question forms the premise of John Fagg’s Re-envisioning the Everyday: American Genre Scenes, 1905–1945. Just four months after publicly ...
That happened to a painting by John Sloan, one of the original Ashcan school of painters who specialized in depicting the gritty reality of American cities in the early 20th century. In 1934 ...