Design for Business Card

© 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.
Design for Business Card
© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publication.

Design for Business Card

Date1892
Artist (American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumInk and graphite on illustration board mounted on board
Dimensionssheet: 4 1/8 × 7 5/16 in. (10.5 × 18.6 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Helen Farr Sloan, 2014
Object number2014-236
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextThis drawing presents an alternate layout for Sloan's business card, which he etched in 1892. Elements in pencil at the upper left reference Laub & Sloan, probably a fledgling design partnership with Sloan's roommate Joe Laub, a specialist in decorative illustration for newspapers.