Poster Design

Datec. 1895

Artist Marianna Sloan (American artist, 1875–1954)

MediumWatercolor on paper

Dimensionscomposition: 11 1/8 × 7 3/8 in. (28.3 × 18.7 cm)
sheet: 12 1/2 × 8 3/4 in. (31.8 × 22.2 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2018

Object number2018-21a

On View

Not on view

ClassificationsDRAWING

Label TextStylistically, this drawing resembles the artist's poster for the Thanksgiving Eve Edition of the Philadelphia Press from 1895, and the figure appears to be reading a newspaper. This may have been an alternate design for that poster, or an illustration or poster for another edition.