Bookplate for Kathleen and Rockwell Kent
Date1920
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumCommercial offset print
Dimensionssheet: 5 × 3 15/16 in. (12.7 × 10 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1986
Object number1986-133.348.1
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextSloan designed this bookplate for his friend Rockwell Kent. It was the first bookplate the Kents used. Kent would become a master of bookplate design. The bookplate is very much in the style of Sloan's linocut posters for the Society of Independent Artists around this time.