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...Government's grants and loans abroad have increased, said Sloan, from $40 million in 1939 to an accumulative total of $13.7 billion. But private in vestment is dwindling. In 1951's first nine months it was $583 million, little more than half of the amount in the corresponding period...
...George A. Sloan, chairman...
Professional Fun. Sloan never sold a painting until he was 49. In a book of notes entitled The Gist of Art, Sloan hammers home the point that art is a life, not a living: "The only reason I am in the profession is because it is fun. I have always painted for myself and made my living by illustrating and teaching. Some of the etchings and a few paintings made 20 years ago sell now and then, but ... if what I am doing now were selling I would think there was something the matter with...
...paintings of Sloan's last 20 years are still unpopular. They lack the unbuttoned ease of his early, reportorial pictures. In age he stuck largely to studio nudes, developed a new and weird technique of circling the painted flesh with hundreds of scratchy red pin stripes to "clinch the form...
...Sloan's more realistic works now seem part of a vanished age, but their humanity will never date. Technically they are expert, and in such nostalgic pictures of Manhattan as The Lafayette (reproduced opposite) the luminous depth of their color goes beyond mere expertness. Yet simplicity and warmth are the main elements of Sloan's art, which makes it hard to criticize. John Sloan himself guessed that "maybe the reason I haven't made a greater position in the history of art is that I am not sufficiently critical of my own work. Like one of those...