Stein at Window, Sixth Avenue (1918)
John Sloan
oil on canvas
Our Surface Research class went to the Virginia Museum of Fine Art (VMFA) to gain inspiration for our final projects, which are free of constraints or assigned concepts - we can do anything we want to. In this piece, artist John Sloan painted the traditional, familiar model in the studio. What is different, however, is that she isn't the typical object of beauty you find in classical paintings. She's his sitter, Efzenka Stein, an immigrant from Bohemia. She gazes out the window at the newly industrialized city, dressed in her working clothes. This portrayal of simplicity, realism, and truth is beauty within itself.
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