Unemployed, Buy Apples

© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publica…
© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Unemployed, Buy Apples
© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publication.

Unemployed, Buy Apples

Date1930
Artist (American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumBlue ink on paper
Dimensionssheet: 5 1/8 × 7 13/16 in. (13 × 19.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1986
Object number1986-135.231d
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextThe temptation of Adam and Eve was a favorite subject for Sloan. Here he sets Eve in a Depression-era context, with the serpent offering apples for sale.