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Artist or Maker: John Sloan (1871-1951)

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Description: Piano Trio
signed and dated '-John Sloan-46' (lower right)--signed again and inscribed with title (on the reverse)
oil and tempera on paper laid down on canvas laid down on board
16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm.)

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Provenance: Louis Stein.
Private collection.

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Exhibited: New York, Kraushaar Galleries, John Sloan: Retrospective Exhibition, February 2-28, 1948, no. 50.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, and elsewhere, John Sloan: 1871-1951, January 10-March 2, 1952, no. 83.
Washington, D.C., SITES traveling exhibition, and elsewhere, John Sloan, 1963-65, no. 35.
Wilmington, Delaware, Delaware Art Center, John Sloan, June 16-July 10, 1966, no. 35.
Chester, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Military College, John Sloan Paintings, May 1-June 19, 1967.
Elmira, New York, Arnot Art Gallery, John Sloan, November 9-December 7, 1969.
Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, Lock Haven State College, The John Sloan Exhibit, 1970, no. 24.
New York, New York Cultural Center, and elsewhere, Three Centuries of the American Nude, May 9-June 13, 1975, no. 82.

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Published: J. Sloan, Artist's Diary, August 25-8, September 1-3, 5-6, 1946.
Lock Haven State College, The John Sloan Exhibit, exhibition catalogue, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, 1970, no. 24, illustrated.
R. Elzea, John Sloan's Oil Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonné, Newark, Delaware, 1991, p. 415, no. 1184, illustrated.

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Notes: The present work was painted in the artist's studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico from an earlier drawing, Georgia C: Study for Piano (1930, Private collection). Sloan's etching, Robert Henri, Painter hangs to the right of the piano, while his painting Tammany Hall (1946, Art Students League, New York) hangs below the balcony.