What Carpenter's Tools are Represented Here?
Date1904
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
Illustration CitationThe Philadelphia Press, May 15, 1904.
MediumInk and graphite on bristol board
Dimensionssheet: 10 3/8 x 23 1/8 in. (26.4 x 58.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 2000
Object number2000-215
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextFrom 1900 to 1910, Sloan designed weekly puzzles for the Sunday supplement of the Philadelphia Press. Sloan called these ten-panel puzzles "word charade" puzzles. In this example, each panel is a rebus representing the name of a tool, including (in the fourth panel) a monkey wrench.
