Through this fall, the Cape Ann Museum has on view some of John Sloan's most vibrant oil paintings, from his five consecutive summers in Gloucester. There, between 1914 and 1918, he applied the European modernist approaches to painting he saw at the 1913 Armory Show in New York. And he turned his attention away from dark street scenes and toward the purples and yellows of the New England landscape and sea.
Curator Martha Oaks took WGBH on a tour of the exhibition, "John Sloan Gloucester Days." Listen to her talk about four of the 30-some individual works by playing the audio right below the images.
See "John Sloan Gloucester Days" at the Cape Ann Museum through Nov. 29. The museum has also organized a lecture series around the exhibition, and staff is taking visitors on walking tours to see the sites depicted in Sloan's works and where he spent his time working.
