The Shell of Hell!
Date1939
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
Printer/Printmaker
Ernest David Roth
(American printmaker and painter, 1879–1964)
MediumEtching and mezzotint
Dimensionsplate: 5 x 4 in. (12.7 x 10.2 cm)
sheet: 8 3/16 x 6 5/16 in. (20.8 x 16 cm)
sheet: 8 3/16 x 6 5/16 in. (20.8 x 16 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1963
Object number1963-20.218
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextSloan said that he created this print as an expression of the idea the "uniforms are one of the basic devices of militarism." World War II began a few months after he produced this etching.