Reading in the Subway, First State

© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publica…
© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publication.
Reading in the Subway, First State
© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publication.

Reading in the Subway, First State

Date1926
Artist (American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumEtching
Dimensionsplate: 5 × 3 7/8 in. (12.7 × 9.8 cm)
sheet: 10 × 8 1/2 in. (25.4 × 21.6 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Helen Farr Sloan, 2014
Object number2014-99
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPRINT
Label TextSloan was unhappy with the way this plate was etched in the first state. The lines of the figure and some shadows were reground and rebitten in the second state.