In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
John Sloan was a founding member of the Ashcan School, a group of artists known for painting scenes of urban life in downtown Manhattan. He attended the same Philadelphia high school as Albert Barnes and the painter William Glackens, who helped Dr. Barnes start his collection. While Sloan was known for painting scenes of life he witnessed in New York's working-class neighborhoods, this canvas depicts a more traditional nude, likely painted from an artist's model in a studio setting. Sloan's loose brushstrokes only lightly suggest some of the details of the composition, such as the pattern on the green scarf that rests under the figure's reclining body.
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Edgar Degas — After the Bath
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Joaquín Sorolla — Bacchante (Female Nude from the Back)
George Bellows (American, 1882–1925) — Evening, Nude on a Be
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