Woman and Child on the Roof, First State
Date1914
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumEtching
Dimensionsplate: 4 3/8 × 6 in. (11.1 × 15.2 cm)
sheet: 5 1/16 × 7 13/16 in. (12.9 × 19.8 cm)
sheet: 5 1/16 × 7 13/16 in. (12.9 × 19.8 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Helen Farr Sloan, 2014
Object number2014-61
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThe first state of this print is lightly drawn but the primary composition is complete. When Sloan created complex compositions with spatial recession, he tended to make trial proofs before darkening and adding details to the background and refining the features of individual faces.
