Picketing the Police Permit, Working Proof
Date1910
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
Illustration CitationPickets on the Outposts of Capitalism, New York Call, January 23, 1910.
MediumRelief linecut
Dimensionscomposition: 8 3/16 × 11 in. (20.8 × 27.9 cm)
sheet: 14 × 16 5/16 in. (35.6 × 41.4 cm)
sheet: 14 × 16 5/16 in. (35.6 × 41.4 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Helen Farr Sloan, 2014
Object number2014-206
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextDuring a strike of shirtwaist makers, many young female workers were arrested for picketing the shops. Sloan made this cartoon--showing prostitutes gathered on the sidewalk with their clients--in response. This, he asserted, was "picketing" that the police permitted. Sloan's cartoon appeared in the New York Call. He noted in his diary that the original drawing and "the cut" (probably this working proof) were returned to him by editors at the Call.
Louis John Rhead
1921
