Charities and Corrections
Date1914
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
Illustration Citation"The Beating," by Floyd Dell, in The Masses, August 1914.
MediumInk and crayon on paper
Dimensionscomposition: 17 1/2 × 17 1/2 in. (44.5 × 44.5 cm)
sheet: 22 5/8 × 17 7/8 in. (57.5 × 45.4 cm)
sheet: 22 5/8 × 17 7/8 in. (57.5 × 45.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 2000
Object number2000-210
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label Text"The Beating" tells the fictional tale of girls being punished for attempting to run away from a harsh reform school. The story is told from the point of view of a girl, not pictured, listening to her friend being beaten, while other residents of the reform school--"goody-goods" who curried favor with their keepers in hopes of being released--hold her friend down. The listener is awaiting her own punishment, while gazing at the sign hanging in the dormitory that reads "God Is Love."
Joseph Christian Leyendecker
c. 1897
