Illustration for Mitch Miller
Date1920
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
Illustration CitationMitch Miller, by Edgar Lee Masters (New York: Macmillan Company, 1920).
MediumInk and graphite on paper
Dimensionssheet: 9 3/4 × 5 3/16 in. (24.8 × 13.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 2000
Object number2000-164
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextMitch Miller is the story of two boys growing up in the small town of Petersburg, Illinois. They are captivated with Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer, constantly finding parallels between their world and that of the novel. This character, a local handyman called "Nigger Dick," is pictured when he discovers suspicious footprints while helping clean up the site of neighbor's house that had been burned down.
