In John Sloan’s Hairdresser’s Window, 1907, a woman with bleached blonde hair treats the hair of her seated client, whose back is to the viewer. The hairdresser is fully immersed in her work, which ...
What are you looking at? Bodies, desire, and portraits -- Working hard or hardly working? Labor, race, and manhood -- Sex sells: Desire, money, and male bodies -- Men seeking men Summary Arriving in ...
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.