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John Sloan, Under the Old Portal (Old Portale, Santa Fe), 1919 (reworked 1945), oil on canvas, …
Under the Old Portal
John Sloan, Under the Old Portal (Old Portale, Santa Fe), 1919 (reworked 1945), oil on canvas, …
John Sloan, Under the Old Portal (Old Portale, Santa Fe), 1919 (reworked 1945), oil on canvas, 24 x 20 in. Collection of the New Mexico Museum of Art. Gift of Julius Gans, 1946 (22.23P). Photo by Blair Clark.

Under the Old Portal

Artist (American, 1871 - 1951)
Date1919 (reworked 1945)
Mediumoil on canvas
DimensionsImage: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm)
Frame: 29 1/2 x 25 3/4 x 1 1/4 in. (74.9 x 65.4 x 3.2 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineGift of Julius Gans, 1946
Object number22.23P
DescriptionTwo women stand under a portal in a business section of town. They have arms around each other and each has an arm up to their heads, legs are poised. Man stands at their left leaning against post observing them. Barber pole in background.
Text Entries
Elzea, Assoc. Director at the Delaware Art Museum who is doing a catalogue raisonne on John Sloan, "Old Portale, Santa Fe" and "Twittering Girls-Flirts in the Portale"

Note: Illus. "Gist of Art" p. 258 "The last survival of the roofed sidewalks which once gave Santa Fe a thoroughly foreign appearance. Coy maids and mashers have not been abolished." (John Sloan)
As stated in the catalog raisonne: The sky was repainted with tempera and lightened in 1945 (Sloan diary, 19, 21, 24 July 1945)
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