New York Scene: 1906-1913 John Sloan

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by  Sloan, John(Editor);John, Bruce St(Editor);Mintz, Laurence(Introduction)

NEW YORK SCENE
1906-1913
J O HN S L O AN
BRUCE ST. JOHN, editor
With a new introduction by Herbert I. London
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LONDON AND NEW YORK
Originally published in 1965 by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.
Published 2013 by Transaction Publishers
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Library of Congress Catalog Number: 2012014750
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sloan, John, 1871-1951.
New York scene : 1906-1913 / John Sloan ; Bruce St. John, editor, with a new
introduction by Herbert I. London.
pages cm
Reprint of: John Sloan's New York scene. -- New York : Harper & Row,
1965.
ISBN 978-1-4128-4259-4
1. Sloan, John, 1871-1951--Diaries. 2. Artists--United States--Diaries.
3. New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--20th century. I. Title.
ND237.S57A2 2013
759.13--dc23
[B]
2012014750
ISBN-13: 978-1-4128-4259-4 (pbk)
contents
Foreword xi
Introduction xiii
Introduction to the Transaction Edition xxiv
Editor’s Note xxvi
Dramatis Personae xxvii
The Diary
1906 3
1907 97
1908 179
1909 277
1910 371
1911 493
1912 597
1913 627
Conclusion 639
Chronology 643
Index 647

ILLUSTRATIONS
Frontispiece:
"Scrubwomen in the Old Astor Library/' 1910. Munson-Wil-
liams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York
page 5: "Sunset, West Twenty Third Street," 1906. The Joslyn Art
Museum
page 10: "Memory," 1906. The Kraushaar Galleries
page 18: "Making Faces," 1907. From the Collection of Gerald Bordman
page24: Colliers "play" cover, October 13, 1906. From the John Sloan
Collection, Delaware Art Center
page 29: "Dolly Walks with Us," by Robert Henri. From the John Sloan
Collection, Delaware Art Center
page 36: "Kent Crane," 1906. From the Estate of John Sloan
page 41: "Dust Storm, Fifth Avenue," 1906. Oil. The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, George A. Hearn Fund, 1921
page 71: "Miss Hoch," 1906. From the Estate of John Sloan
page 72: "Stein and Press," 1906. From the Collection of the Art Gallery
of Hamilton, Ontario
page 81: "Robert Henri," 1905. Etching. The Metropolitan Museum
of Art, Dodson Fund, 1931
page 89: "Ferry Slip, Winter, 1905-6." From the Joseph H. Hirshhorn
Collection
page 92: "My Dad," 1906. From the John Sloan Collection, Delaware
Art Center
page 103: "Collick's, The National Weekly" (signed) Mary Kippered
Herring, by Robert Henri. From the John Sloan Collection,
Delaware Art Center
page 105: "Mother," 1906. Etching. The Kraushaar Galleries
page IOJ: "Reading the Evidence, or Mrs. Sloan at Home," February,
1907, by Robert Henri. From the John Sloan Collection, Dela­
ware Art Center
page 117: "Dolly with the Black Bow," 1909. Oil. Collection of the Whit­
ney Museum of American Art, New York, gift of Miss Amelia
Elizabeth White
page 119: 'Throbbing Fountain, Madison Square/' 1907. Private Col­
lection
page 153: "Haymarket," 1907. The Brooklyn Museum
page 155: ''Gray and Brass/' 1907. From the Collection of Lincoln Isham
page 193: "Gentlemen, I intend buying some of your pictures if my wife
likes them," by Robert Henri. From the John Sloan Collec­
tion, Delaware Art Center
page 205; "William S. Walsh," 1908. The Kraushaar Galleries
page 22c: "Coytesville Palisades," 1908. Owned by the Wilmington
Society of the Fine Arts, Delaware Art Center
page 234: "South Beach Bathers,"1907-8. From the Collection of the
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
page 256: "Albert E. Ullman," 1907-8. The Kraushaar Galleries
page 285: The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, August, 1909
page 293: "Chinese Restaurant," 1909. Memorial Art Gallery, University
of Rochester
page 295: "Girl in Fur Hat," 1909. From the Collection of the New
Britain Museum of American Art
page 324: "My Two Friends, Yeats and Henri," 1910. From a Private
Collection
page 334: "Self Portrait," 1909-12. From the John Sloan Collection,
Delaware Art Center
page 345: "The Mademoiselles Petitpas," by John Butler Yeats. From
the John Sloan Collection, Delaware Art Center
page 349: "Yolande in Large Hat," 1909-10. From the Estate of John Sloan.
page 354: "Fifth Avenue," 1909. From the Collection of Mrs. John F.
Kraushaar
PaSe39S: "The Hanging Committee," N.A.D. From the John Sloan
Collection, Delaware Art Center
page 416: "John Sloan," by John Butler Yeats. From the John Sloan Col­
lection, Delaware Art Center
page 430: "Dolly Sloan," by John Butler Yeats. From the John Sloan
Collection, Delaware Art Center
page 445: "The Coburn Players," 1910. From the Collection of the
Dayton Art Institute
page 449: "Yeats at Petitpas'," 1910. In the Collection of the Corcoran
Gallery of Art
page 508: "Isadora Duncan," 1911. The Kraushaar Galleries
page 573: "George Arliss in Disraeli." From the John Sloan Collection,
Delaware Art Center
page 577: "Savings Bank," 1911. From the Collection of Dr. Irving Levitt
page 585: Colliers, The National Weekly, December 2, 1911
vin
pageóoo: "Six O'clock, Winter," 1912. The Phillips Collection, Wash­
ington
page 605: "Anshutz on Anatomy," 1912. The Kraushaar Galleries
page 606: "Renganeschi's Saturday Night," 1912. The Art Institute of
Chicago
page 614: "McSorley's Back Room," 1912. Dartmouth College
Photographs following page 50:
February 1 and 2, 1908, diary pages. From the John Sloan
Collection, Delaware Art Center.
The Eight. From the John Sloan Collection, Delaware Art
Center.
John Sloan in studio, 705 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 1892-3.
From the John Sloan Collection, Delaware Art Center.
Sloan in studio, 806 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. From the
John Sloan Collection, Delaware Art Center.
John Sloan and Helen Farr Sloan painting in their Hotel Chel­
sea studio, 1950. From the John Sloan Collection, Delaware
Art Center.
John Sloan and Thomas Anshutz. From the John Sloan Col­
lection, Delaware Art Center.
Robert Henri and William Glackens. From the John Sloan
Collection, Delaware Art Center.
Sunday, October 7, 1906, at Coney Island. From the John
Sloan Collection, Delaware Art Center.
Cousin Eleanor Sloan, her mother Mrs. Albert Sloan, Dolly
Sloan, and Mrs. Lee, Henri's mother. From the John Sloan
Collection, Delaware Art Center.
Luks in prize fight.
John Sloan and his father and mother in garden of Camac
Street house, Philadelphia, circa 1897. From the John Sloan
Collection, Delaware Art Center.
Dolly Sloan. From the John Sloan Collection, Delaware Art
Center.
Bessie Sloan. From the John Sloan Collection, Delaware Art
Center.
Marianna Sloan. From the John Sloan Collection, Delaware
Art Center.
John Sloan's mother, December 25, 1906. From the John Sloan
Collection, Delaware Art Center.
John Sloan, 1950. From the John Sloan Collection, Delaware
Art Center.
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