Ford Tank and Fleeing Figures
Datec. 1918
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumInk and crayon on board
Dimensionssheet: 22 15/16 × 19 5/16 in. (58.3 × 49.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 2000
Object number2000-772
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextFord Motor Company began to build tanks during World War I, and this drawing likely dates from that time. However, the first Ford tank (the M1918) was a light, two-man tank, unlike the behemoth—more typical of British World War I tanks—pictured here.
Wladislaw Theodore Benda
not dated
Oscar Edward Cesare
1931
