Sunday Women Drying Their Hair, John Sloane (1912).
On the seventh night of Hanukkah I gave Lisa (and myself of course) a night in Larchmont Hotel in Greenwich Village.
We had soup-dumplings at Shanghai Joe’s, then took in a late night showing of THE ROAD (not the season’s most feel-good movie) at the Sunshine on Houston.
Next day we ended up at the Metropolitan Museum, where we wandered round the AMERICAN STORIES show. Having grown up in the UK I’m mostly pretty unfamiliar with these works of Eakins, Homer, Cassatt, et al, and it’s always a thrill to see their very accessible works for the first time. My favorite was SUNDAY, WOMEN DRYING THEIR HAIR (above), painted by John Sloane in downtown New York in 1912.
Still wet after 98 years (the hair, not the painting).
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