Ludlow, Colorado (Class War in Colorado), 1914, drawing for an illustration in "The New York Call," April 25, 1914

John Sloan, American, 1871 - 1951

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1914

Lithographic crayon on wove paper

Sheet: 18 3/4 × 12 1/2 in. (47.6 × 31.7 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of John and Helen Farr Sloan

D.952.44

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Drawing

Research Area

Drawing

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, lower right: John Sloan--; inscribed and dated, in graphite, lower left: "LUDLOW, COL. 1914."

Course History

ARTH 17, The Power of Place: Urban and Rural Images in American Art, 1900-1945, Sarah Powers, Winter 2014

WRIT 5, Human Rights, Global to Local, Peggy Baum, Winter 2014

NAIS 8.01, Perspectives in Native American Studies, Heid Erdrich, Fall 2022

English 52.19, Poverty in American LIterature: 1861-1925, Colleen Boggs, Spring 2023

English 52.19, Poverty in American Literature: 1861-1925, Colleen Boggs, Spring 2023

English 52.19, Poverty in American LIterature: 1861-1925, Colleen Boggs, Spring 2023

Exhibition History

American Works on Paper to 1950: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 22-December 9, 2007.

City Life Illustrated, 1890-1940: Sloan, Glackens, Luks, Shinn-- Their Friends and Followers, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware, (as "Class Wars in Colorado," no cat. no.), September 7-November 23, 1980.

From Copley to Dove: American Drawings and Watercolors at Dartmouth, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, (no cat.), March 11-May 28, 1989.

Graphic Styles of the American Eight, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, no. 139, February 29- April 11, 1976.

In Good Conscience:The Radical Tradition in Twentieth-Century American Illustration, The Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, (no cat. no.), August 12-September 27, 1992; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 17-December 20, 1992; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama, January 10-February 21, 1993.

John Sloan, 1871-1951, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C., no. 92 (as: Class War in Colorado), September 1971-June 1972.

John Sloan, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, (no cat.), 1967.

John Sloan: Paintings, Prints, Drawings, Jaffe-Friede, Strauss and Barrows Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 2, 1981-January 3, 1982; DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts, January 23-March 7, 1982; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan, March 18-May 2, 1982; Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin, June 12-August 1, 1982; Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio, September 11-October 24, 1982; Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, November 6, 1982-January 16, 1983.

John Sloan: Spectator of Life, IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York, no. 83, April 26-June 18. 1988; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware, July 15-September 4, 1988; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, September 17-November 6, 1988; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, November 20, 1988-January 1, 1989.

Marks of Distinction:Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 29, 2005; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 24-September 11, 2005; National Academy Museum, New York City, New York, October 20-December 31, 2005.

The Artists as Reporter, 1897-1915, Neuberger Museum, College at Purchase, Purchase, New York, no. 12 (as "Class Wars in Colorado"), April 1-July 21, 1984.

Publication History

Paul Buhle and Edmund B. Sullivan, Images of American Radicalism, Hanover, Mass.: The Christopher Publishing House, c1998, 462 p., ill. p. 148

Rowland Elzea and Elizabeth Hawkes, John Sloan: Spectator of Life, Wilmington, Delaware: Delaware Art Museum, 1988, p. 119, no. 83.

Papanikolas, Zeese, Buried Unsung, Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London, cover illustration.

Colorado Heritage, Winter 1991, Denver: Colorado Historical Society, 1991.

Patricia Janis Broder, The American West: The Modern Vision, Boston: Little Brown and Co. (A New York Graphic Society Book), 1984, p. 46-48, ill. p. 47.

John Sloan: Paintings, Prints, Drawings, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1982.

A Circle of Illustrators Views Contemporary Life: 1890-1940, Wilmington, Delaware: Delaware Art Museum, 1980.

Leonard F. Guttridge, Colorado Coal Miner's Strike of 1913-1914, Houghton Mifflin.

Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, pp. 35, 132, 135, 261-262, 267, ill. p. 35, fig. 34, 133, no. 37.

Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 141, no. 113.

Provenance

The artist; given to present collection, 1952.

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