Study for "Isaac L. Rice, Esq."
Date1915
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumGraphite on paper
Dimensionssheet: 16 × 13 11/16 in. (40.6 × 34.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 2000
Object number2000-330
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextThe widow of Isaac Rice, a chess master, commissioned Sloan, Bellows, and another artist to draw Rice on his death bed. Sloan needled an etching on the spot, and produced two etchings of Rice at his chess board based on photographs and his own drawings of Rice.
