Four Sketches of Emma Goldman's Deportation
Date1919
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumGraphite on paper
Dimensionssheet: 9 3/4 × 6 3/16 in. (24.8 × 15.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 2000
Object number2000-31
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextOn December 21, 1919, the anarchist Emma Goldman was one of over 200 political radicals deported to the Soviet Union on the S.S. Buford. Sloan, who had been an active Socialist in the early 1910s, made a series of sketches of the event.
