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Northshore October 2015

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126 | OCTOBER 2015 nshoremag.com BY ROBERT G. PUSHKAR Painter John Sloan's renderings of Gloucester are now on view at the Cape Ann Museum. Glory Days photograph by Scott Goodwin (opposite) For five successive summers, artist John Sloan had a fruitful romance with Gloucester. From 1914 through 1918, he painted in the port city, drawing inspiration from the rug- ged coastal environs. He wrote, "A landscape is a portrait of a place." The Cape Ann Museum's current in-depth LIVE Gloucester Days exhibit features 39 of his "portraits," all of which recol- lect those halcyon days in oils. Rich in light and color and with a distinc- tive sense of place, Sloan's paintings capture the city's spirit. Sloan believed Gloucester to be "one of the odd corners of America, This page, clockwise from top left, Self-Portrait, Working, 1916, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire, Gift of John and Helen Farr Sloan ©2015 Delaware Art Museum/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Cove, Rocky Neck, 1914, Oil on canvas, Private Collection, Birmingham, Alabama, ©2015 Delaware Art Museum, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Street, Lilacs, Noon Sun, 1918, Oil on canvas, Collection of Tacoma Museum of Art, Gift of the Cheney Foundation, 1977.5, ©2015 Delaware Art Museum/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Gloucester, Lavender Rock, 1915, Oil on canvas, Kraushaar Galleries, New York, ©2015 Delaware Art Museum/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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