Schuylkill River
Date1894
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumEtching
Dimensionsplate: 8 1/16 × 5 1/8 in. (20.5 × 13 cm)
sheet: 12 9/16 × 9 1/8 in. (31.9 × 23.2 cm)
sheet: 12 9/16 × 9 1/8 in. (31.9 × 23.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1998
Object number1998-183
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThis print betrays Sloan's short-lived interest in the etchings of James A. M. Whistler. In late-nineteenth-century America, Whistler was very famous for his flamboyant persona and his art. In 1894 Sloan would have been acutely aware of Whistler's art. For their sixty-third annual exhibition in 1893-94, the Pennsylvania Academy borrowed five of the six paintings by Whistler that had appeared in the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. In 1894 a thinly disguised caricature of Whistler appeared in the popular serialized story Trilby by Georges du Maurier. That year Sloan and his friends would amuse themselves caricaturing Whistler's paintings and du Maurier's story.
