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Carol with Blue Hair Ribbon
Carol with Blue Hair Ribbon

Carol with Blue Hair Ribbon

Primary (Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, 1871–Hanover, New Hampshire, 1951)
NationalityAmerican, North America
Date1913
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsCanvas: 24 x 20 1/16 in. (61 x 51 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Mari and James A. Michener, G1968.120
Collection AreaModern and Contemporary Art
Object numberG1968.120
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In John Sloan’s Carol with Blue Ribbon, a young girl, placed against a dark background and illuminated by yellow light, looks at the viewer with precocious eyes and offers a cunning smile. The ribbon in her hair, painted in varying tones of blue, adds to the girl’s aura of lively intelligence. Sloan’s sectioning of the subject’s ribbon and dress and expressive brushwork in this portrait recall the experimentation of Post-Impressionists like Paul Cézanne and Vincent van Gogh.
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