The Ludlow Massacre, 1914
Like his drawings of Triangle Shirtwaist fire victims in New York, this cover illustration for the popular socialist magazine The Masses demonstrates John Sloan’s outrage at social injustice in progressive America. The drawing memorializes a tragic episode during a coal miners’ strike at Ludlow, Colorado — the asphyxiation of women and children when vigilantes torched the tent city of evicted miners — and the aftermath, an armed revolt by enraged miners. The Masses, June 1914.