View full size Cleveland Museum of Art With the eye of the journalist he was trained to be, John Sloan captured a slice of New York tenement life in his 1912 painting, "A Woman's Work," 1912.

There, in a neat yard off Georgia Highway 111, is some of the nation’s most important art. Not only is it made by a woman, Laura Pope Forester (1873-1953), it is the oldest known surviving folk ...