Study for "Horace Traubel"
Date1916
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumGraphite on paper
Dimensionssheet: 15 × 13 3/4 in. (38.1 × 34.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1980
Object number1980-214.232
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextHorace Traubel is best known as the author of a four-volume biography of Walt Whitman's final years. Sloan met Traubel in 1910 and described him as "a thinker and poet in his own right."