Bridle Path

Details

John Sloan (1871-1951)
Bridle Path
signed '--John Sloan--' (lower right)
oil on canvas laid down on masonite
8 ¾ x 11 in. (22.2 x 27.9 cm.)
Painted in 1909.

Provenance

The artist.
[With]C.W. Kraushaar Art Galleries, New York.
Charles M. Ayer, New York, acquired from the above.
Parke-Bernet, New York, 14 March 1940, lot 73, sold by the above.
Major Edward Bowes, New York.
Parke-Bernet, New York, 13 November 1943, lot 149, sold by the above.
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York.
Acquired by the late owners from the above, 1973.

Literature

G. Holcomb III, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of John Sloan, 1900-1913, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Delaware, 1972, p. 409.
G. Holcomb III, The Early Landscapes of John Sloan, exhibition catalogue, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, 1969, n.p., no. 7.
R. Elzea, John Sloan's Oil Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, Newark, New Jersey, 1989, p. 101, no. 161.

Exhibited

(Probably) New York, Macbeth Gallery, "The Eight" (of 1908): Thirty Years After, January 4-17, 1938, no. 29 (as Bridle Path, Central Park, 1908).
Chattanooga, Tennessee, Hunter Museum of American Art, The Alice E. and Joseph H. Davenport, Jr. Collection, April 10-June 7, 2015.

Descriptif du lot

In his diary entry for November 13, 1909, John Sloan wrote, "Hurried, after my cocoa and shredded wheat breakfast to Joe Laub's and he and I went over to Central park and made sketches. Little bridle path subject. There is good stuff in the bridle path for a picture. The leisure class taking their medicine in the morning while we poor artists have to work!!" (as quoted in B. St. John, ed., John Sloan's New York Scene, 1906-1913, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2013, p. 350)

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