John Sloan letters and sketch
name: label: Creator
content: Sloan, John, 1871-1951
label: Names
content: Kraushaar, John F., 1871-1946
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Mural painting and decoration -- United States
label: Topic
content: Painting, American
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Letter on reel 3472 (fr. 30-36) donated 1976 by Charles Feinberg, a collector of American art and friend of AAA. Letter reel 3472 (fr. 37-42) donated 1976 by George E. Jordan. Letters on reels 3472 (fr. 43-50) and reel 4391 provenance unknown.
creator: label: Creator
content: Sloan, John, 1871-1951
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter, printmaker, illustrator, teacher; New York, N.Y. and Santa Fe, N.M. Member of "The Eight."
label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter; New York, N.Y.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4 Items ((on 2 partial microfilm reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1909-1933
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.sloajohn
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 3472 and 4391 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Letters and sketch.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 3472 (fr. 30-36): A crayon sketch by Sloan on Thanksgiving, Nov. 25, 1909, signed by other guests Mary Fanton Roberts, Robert and Marjorie Henri, John Butler Yeats, Dolly and Eleanor Sloan, and others.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 3472 (fr. 37-42): Letter to William Woodward, June 24, 1935, soliciting money for the Artists and Writers Dinner Club, to help keep the club open to feed artists in need.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 3472 (fr. 43-50): An illustrated letter to Mr. [John] Kraushaar, July 5, 1919, written from Omaha, Nebraska, en route to Santa Fe, N.M. He writes that he has done "so much setting still in the car, that I'll be glad to try the feel of a brush."
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 4391: A letter to "Nat & Estelle," written from New York. Sloan thanks them for their gift of fruit, comments on his etching as a respite from "painting problems which are so many!", the opening and small membership of the 17th annual exhibition of the Independents, and the negative reaction to Diego Rivera's "new Detroit murals," which Sloan finds "magnificent."
label: Scope and Contents
content: UNFILMED: A letter to an unidentified recipient, dated Feb. 1915. Sloan invites an order for some of his prints, and encloses a pamphlet listing prices and showing reproductions of several of his etchings.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: John Sloan papers, also located at: Helen Farr Sloan Library, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, De.