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The Rathskeller

1901

John Sloan

(American, 1871–1951)
Culture
America, early 20th Century
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
Framed: 110.6 x 89.2 x 7 cm (43 9/16 x 35 1/8 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 90.5 x 69 cm (35 5/8 x 27 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Hanna Fund 1946.164
Public Domain
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Location
208 American Gilded Age and Realism
Print
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Sloan worked as an illustrator for various newspapers before becoming a professional painter and printmaker.

Description

Economic differences infuse Sloan’s scene of patrons at a Philadelphia bar. Here, a working-class woman sharing a beer with a companion captures the attention of a lone man who has ordered the more costly champagne. One contemporary critic characterized this wealthier man as “a spider watching for the fly.”
A vertically oriented oil painting in dark colors depicts three people with medium skin tones in an interior. From our left to our right, a mustachioed man faces us, a woman in a large black hat sits in profile, and a bearded man sits at a table draped in a white cloth. Two empty chairs stand near a bucket in the foreground. This scene is rendered with loose brushwork.

The Rathskeller

1901

John Sloan

(American, 1871–1951)
America, early 20th Century

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