Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.

The effect is conceptual rather than perceptual which Sloan denigrated as "eyesight" painting". S. "


Biography
John Sloan was born in Lock Haven Pennsylvania on August 2 1871 to James Dixon a man with artistic leanings who made an unsteady income in a succession of jobs and Henrietta Sloan a schoolteacher from an affluent family.

John French Sloan (August 2 1871 – September 7 1951) was a twentieth-century painter and etcher and one of the founders of the Ashcan school of American art. ". He was also a member of the group known as The Eight.