The Wake on the Ferry
1949 · Etching on off-white wove paper
Image/plate: 12.6 × 17.8 cm (5 × 7 1/16 in.); Sheet: 21.8 × 27.4 cm (8 5/8 × 10 13/16 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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John Sloan
Artist
WA-00029484
PrintmakingAshcan SchoolArt NouveauRealism
Representation
None documented
29
Institutional Exhibitions
151
Works in Collection
278
Assets Indexed
1
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0
Publications Referenced
90%
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Authority Records (3)
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Naked/Nude
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1986
No image
American Prints: 1900�1960; Recent Acquisitions: Illustrated Books
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985–1986
No image
Art of the Twenties
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979–1980
No image
New York/New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1978
No image
Points of View
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1975
No image
Posters in the Penthouse
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1974–1975
No image
American Prints: 1913�1963
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1974–1975
No image
American Prints from the International Program
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1971
No image
Manhattan Observed
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1968
No image
The Taste of a Connoisseur: The Paul J. Sachs Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1966–1967
No image
Art Nouveau
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1960
No image
Portraits from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1960
Field Verification (1 fields)
0 cross-verified · 1 single-source
- LocationGallery Generic· 72%
Source Registry (2)
- Christies-ArtsyTier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
About
Why this artist matters now
John Sloan was an American painter and printmaker known for urban scenes and social realist subjects rendered in oil and etching. Active in early twentieth-century New York, he documented city life with particular attention to working-class neighborhoods and street activity. His work appeared in the groundbreaking 1908 exhibition at Macbeth Gallery that helped establish American modernism. Sloan's etchings and paintings combined observation with a democratic regard for ordinary subjects often excluded from academic art practice.
Source: Christies Artsy · Trust score: 100% · Updated 1mo ago
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Ashcan School
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Artworks (151)
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Artwork sources (4)
151 published of 275 catalogued · 91 with image
- MoMA124 publishedof 248 catalogued68 img
- Art Institute Chicago20 published20 img
- Cleveland Museum of Art5 published2 img
- Whitney2 published1 img
Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 1)
1 entries · 1 sources
- 1901 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
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8Institutional
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In collection
Art Institute of Chicago
In collection
Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
In collection
Whitney Museum of American Art
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