Bookplate for Kathleen and Rockwell Kent

© 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.
Bookplate for Kathleen and Rockwell Kent
© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publication.

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 view
ClassificationsPRINT
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.