Woman Selling Apples

© 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.
Woman Selling Apples
© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publication.

Woman Selling Apples

Date1930
Artist (American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumGraphite on paper
Dimensionssheet: 17 1/8 × 9 3/8 in. (43.5 × 23.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1986
Object number1986-133.458
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextConsidering Sloan's fascination with the myth of Adam and Eve, this drawing could be read as a Depression-era update of that tale, with the pole at left sanding in for a snake in a tree.