Altered Cover of Life Magazine

© 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.
Altered Cover of Life Magazine
© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publication.

Altered Cover of Life Magazine

Date1946
Artist (American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumMixed media on magazine cover
Dimensionssheet: 13 7/8 × 10 1/2 in. (35.2 × 26.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 2000
Object number2000-642
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextSloan transformed the Life magazine covergirl into an expressive, elongated figure, glimpsed from behind. Her ghostly face is still visible in the figure's torso.