Postcard to Robert Henri with Sketch of Sloan Driving Car in Ditch
Date1922
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumGraphite and ink on paper
Dimensionssheet: 3 3/16 × 5 7/16 in. (8.1 × 13.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1986
Object number1986-133.352
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextOn this postcard, Sloan illustrated his latest driving misadventure, running a Model-T into a ditch in Santa Fe. Living in New York City since 1904, Sloan did not purchase a car (or drive regularly) until he began to spend summers in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the 1920s.
