Three Sailors Seated on Deck

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© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publication.
Three Sailors Seated on Deck
© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publication.

Three Sailors Seated on Deck

Date1884
Artist (American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumGraphite on paper
Dimensionscomposition: 4 1/8 × 4 3/8 in. (10.5 × 11.1 cm)
sheet: 4 7/16 × 4 3/4 in. (11.3 × 12.1 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Helen Farr Sloan, 2014
Object number2014-235
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextIn 1884, then 12-year-old John Sloan added watercolor and ink drawings to his copy of Treasure Island, foreshadowing his career as an illustrator. This drawing may be one of those.