AFA Winter 2017

2017 Antiques & Fine Art 103 right Fig. 9: John Sloan (1871–1951), Long Shadows, 1918. Oil on canvas, 20 × 26 inches. Delaware Art Museum; Gift of the John Sloan Trust, 2006. © 2017 Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. below Fig. 10: John Sloan (1871–1951), Blonde Nude with Orange, Blue Couch, ca. 1917. Oil on canvas, 20 × 24 inches. Delaware Art Museum; Gift of the John Sloan Trust, 2006. © 2017 Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. productive; in the course of five seasons, he painted 292 paintings, nearly one quarter of his career output. These canvasses include some of the artist’s most daring compositions. Back in New York, Sloan commenced teaching at the Art Students League in 1916. The League brought new ideas and new friends into his circle, and Sloan began to focus more seriously on figure painting, “to keep a little ahead of my students.”  4 These students included Guy Pène du Bois, Isabel Bishop, and