Did genre painting exist in the early twentieth century? This question forms the premise of John Fagg’s Re-envisioning the Everyday: American Genre Scenes, 1905–1945. Just four months after publicly ...

Sloan was the master of the rooftop scene, painting dozens of works that showed women doing laundry, drying their hair, and gossiping. John Sloan, Red Kimono on the Roof, 1912, oil on canvas, 61 cm × ...