Connoisseurs of Prints

Artist John Sloan (American, 1871 - 1951)

Date1905

MediumEtching

DimensionsImage: 5 × 7 in. (12.7 × 17.8 cm) Sheet: 9 1/8 × 11 15/16 in. (23.2 × 30.3 cm)

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Print Society

CultureAmerican

Inscribed100 proofs, LL

PortfolioNew York City Life

Catalogue raisonnéMorse 127

Object numberPC2018.24

ClassificationsPrint Collection

DescriptionGallery-goers at an auction preview at the American Art Galleries on 23rd Street in Manhattan. Self-portrait of Sloan included on far right examining a print with a magnifiying glass.
Interpretations John Sloan, an American realist who belonged to the Ashcan School (so-called because of their presumed fascination with depicting “garbage”), began his career as a newspaper illustrator in Philadelphia. He avidly adopted the etching medium in 1888. Here he portrays the opening of an exhibition of prints at the American Art Gallery in New York. Sloan has included a self-portrait as the figure on the right examining a print with a magnifying glass. The free handling and comic treatment of the other figures in this group recalls similar scenes by the legendary French painter and printmaker, Honoré Daumier. - John Murphy, Hoehn Curatorial Fellow for Prints

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