"Wild Green and Rocks", 1914

JOHN FRENCH SLOAN

American, 1871-1951

"Wild Green and Rocks", 1914

oil on canvas
signed lower right "John Sloan", initialed, titled, and dated on the reverse under the lining "J.S. Wild Green / # 230 Rocks Gloucester / 1914"
20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm.), Frame: 30 x 33 1/2 x 2 1/4 in. (76.2 x 85.1 x 5.7 cm.)

Ruth Martin; Salander-O'Reilly Gallery, New York, New York; Private Collection, North Carolina Exhibited: New York, New York, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, "The Ruth Martin Collection of Paintings by John Sloan", March 4 - April 5, 1980; Springfield, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, July 13 - August 31, 1980; Montclair, New Jersey, Montclair Art Museum, September 21 - November 2, 1980; Chattanooga, Tennessee, Hunter Museum of Art, November 23 - January 4, 1981; Utica, New York, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, January 25 - March 8, 1981; Huntington, New York, Heckscher Museum, May 2 - June 7, 1981: "John Sloan: The Gloucester Years."; Blowing Rock, North Carolina, Blowing Rock Art and History Museum, "Impressions of the Land", August 19 - November 11, 2017. Literature: Rowland Elzea, "John Sloan's Oil Paintings A Catalogue Raisonne", (Newark, New Jersey: University of Delaware Press, 1991), p. 151, cat. no. 308

Tags: oil painting, listed artist, 20th century, Modern / Modernist, Gloucester, Massachusetts, landscape, coastal, seascape, marine

Condition: lined; on a new stretcher; scattered very minor restoration mostly along frame edges

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