JOHN SLOAN 1871-1951 GRAY DAY, JERSEY COAST Measurements: 22in. by 26 .25in. Alternate Measurements: (56 by 66.6 cm) signed John Sloan, l.r. oil on canvas Painted in 1911. Provenance: Estate of the artist Mrs. Helen Farr Sloan (the artist's wife) Kraushaar Galleries, New York Acquired from the above, March 1963 Exhibited: New York, MacDowell Club, 1914 New York, Kraushaar Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings by John Sloan, April 1921, no. 13 (as Coast, Gray Day) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Wanamaker Galleries, John Sloan: Paintings Etchings and Drawings, January 1949, no. 9 (as Gray Day New Jersey Coast) Manchester, Vermont, Southern Vermont Art Center, "The Eight," Fifty-five Years Later, June-July 1963, no. 8 Brooklyn, New York, The Brooklyn Museum; Andover, Massachusetts, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, American Painting: Selections from the Collection of Daniel and Rita Fraad, June-November 1964, no. 41, p. 50 illustrated Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum, American Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings from the Collection of Rita and Daniel Fraad, May-July 1985, no. 36, pp. 76-78, illustrated in color p. 77 Literature and References: "Henri and Fellows at MacDowell Club " American Art News, February 21, 1914, no. 20, p. 6 Paul Waldo Schwartz, "French Art is Blooming Happily in Brooklyn," International New York Times, August 25, 1964, illustrated Bruce St. John, John Sloan's New York Scene from the diaries, notes and correspondence 1906-1913, New York, 1965, p. 561 Grant Holcomb III, A Catalogue Raisonne of the Paintings of John Sloan, 1900-1913, unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Delaware, 1972, pp. 467-469, illustrated Rowland Elzea, John Sloan's Oil Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonne, vol. 1, Newark, Delaware, 1991, no. 183, p. 111, illustrated Note: According to Rowland Elzea, "Sloan remarked in his diary, 'Made one rather large one of the sea, gray day, which seems right interesting for a first attempt at such a subject' (5 September 1911). According to a letter dated 1963 from Helen Farr Sloan to Antoinette Kraushaar, the figure by the boat is the painter Stuart Davis, as a young boy.