Hairdresser's Window, (painting).

Hairdresser's Window, (painting).

Sloan, John, 1871-1951, painter.

Hairdresser's Window, (painting).

Digital Reference:

32 x 26 in. (81.3 x 66.0 cm).

(Lower left:) John Sloan 07 signed

Scene showing the window of a hairdresser's shop on Sixth Avenue in New York City, where a crowd of people has stopped to watch the hairdresser inside bleaching a woman's long dark hair. All around the shop window are advertisements that read "Madame Malcomb," "Curline / Keeps Hair in Curl 25 [cents]" and "Ung Low Chop Suey."

Cityscape -- New York -- New York City

Cityscape -- Street -- Sixth Avenue

Architecture exterior -- Commercial -- Beauty Parlor

Architecture exterior -- Detail -- Window

Occupation -- Service -- Beautician

Wadsworth Atheneum, 600 Main Street, Hartford, Connecticut 06103 Accession Number: 1947.240

Formerly in the collection of Sloan, John, until 1947.

Purchased from Kraushaar Art Galleries, New York, New York 1947.

Wadsworth Atheneum, 1974.

"John Sloan 1871-1951" New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1952, no. 10.

Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, pg. 661.

Zurier, Rebecca, Robert W. Snyder and Virginia M. Mecklenburg, "Metropolitan Lives: the Ashcan artists and their New York," Washington, D.C: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1995, fig. 164.

Sims, Lowery Stokes, "Stuart Davis: American Painter," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991, fig. 1.

St. John, Bruce, "John Sloan," New York: Praeger, 1971, no. 23.

Scott, David W., "John Sloan" New York: Watson-Guptill, 1975, pg. 59.

Goodrich, Lloyd, "John Sloan," New York: Macmillan Co. for the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1952, pg. 23.

Scott, David W., and E. John Bullard, "John Sloan, 1871-1951: His Life and Paintings," Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1971, no. 53.

Elzea, Rowland, "John Sloan's Oil Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonné," Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 1991, no. 84.

"John Sloan 1871-1951" New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1952, pg. 23.

Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, plate 661.

Zurier, Rebecca, Robert W. Snyder and Virginia M. Mecklenburg, "Metropolitan Lives: the Ashcan artists and their New York," Washington, D.C: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1995, pg. 153.

Sims, Lowery Stokes, "Stuart Davis: American Painter," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1991, fig. 1.

St. John, Bruce, "John Sloan," New York: Praeger, 1971, no. 23.

Scott, David W., "John Sloan" New York: Watson-Guptill, 1975, pg. 59.

Goodrich, Lloyd, "John Sloan," New York: Macmillan Co. for the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1952, pg. 23.

Scott, David W., and E. John Bullard, "John Sloan, 1871-1951: His Life and Paintings," Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1971, no. 53.

Elzea, Rowland, "John Sloan's Oil Paintings: A Catalogue Raisonné," Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 1991, no. 84.

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