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Why John Sloan painted this lush scene of a woman in Union Square battling the rain

John Sloan was a Village resident and something of a voyeur in the early 1900s, discreetly watching from his window or walking nearby streets in search of scenes to commit to canvas.

He never lacked material, finding inspiration in the ordinary: a woman hanging laundry, men drinking in McSorley’s saloon, the elevated train snaking through Greenwich Village, a stone-faced nun passing a shuttered

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