Stealing the Wash
John Sloan American
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The subject was inspired by a scene Sloan witnessed from his studio one day. He writes in his diary that he watched as a man picked off clothes from a laundry line, then hid behind a chimney to try on the socks. He wrapped the rest of the clothes in a bundle and hurried off down the fire escape, see: Morse 1969, p. 229.
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