John Sloan's 'Gloucester Days' Exhibit

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 rugged coastal environs. He wrote, “A landscape is a portrait of a place.” The Cape Ann Museum’s current Gloucester Days exhibit features 39 of his “portraits,” all of which recollect those halcyon days in oils. Rich in light and color and with a distinctive sense of place, Sloan’s paintings capture the city’s spirit. Sloan believed Gloucester to be “one of the odd corners of America, built against Puritan landscape, blue-eyed

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John Sloan's 'Gloucester Days' Exhibit

This Cape Ann Museum exhibit features 39 of John Sloan’s “portraits”

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