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John Sloan (American, 1871–1951). Spring Planting, Greenwich Village [New York]. Circa 1913. © 2009 Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo Credit: Art Resource, NY.

As a member of “The Eight” and the “Ashcan School” of realism that helped redefine American art, Sloan depicted the contagious urban energy of New York City in the early 1900s. According to some, Sloan tried to “reconcile the genteel past with a more rugged, industrialized present in his female figures...imbued with a nostalgic dignity in their manual labor” [Coco JM, 2004]. Windows were prominent in Sloan's work. He wrote, “I am in the habit of watching every bit of human life I can see about my windows....” Here, he looks out his window to find a woman bending over her shovel, her foot almost delicately pressing the blade into the soil, in a garden surrounded by tenements.

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