Davis
Date1894
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumInk on paper
Dimensionssheet: 7 11/16 × 4 13/16 in. (19.5 × 12.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 2000
Object number2000-811a
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextSloan appears to be presenting his friend Ed Davis as a comic figure with oversized shoes, an exaggerated cane, and face paint. This may be a costume study for a play; Davis, Sloan, and other current and former students of the Pennsylvania Academy produced in a series of comic plays in the mid-1890s, including "Twillbe" and "The Widow Cloonan's Curse," on a make-shift stage in Sloan's studio.
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