John Smith Runs Over the Alluring Offers

© 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.
John Smith Runs Over the Alluring Offers
© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publication.

John Smith Runs Over the Alluring Offers

Date1909
Artist John Sloan American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951
Illustration Citation"John Smith Borrows $20," by J. M. Oskison, in Collier's, September 4, 1909.
MediumGraphite on paper
Dimensionssheet: 10 7/16 × 8 in. (26.5 × 20.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 2000
Object number2000-65
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextThis drawing, with a snippet of text taken from the story, is a study for an illustration that was not used for this tale about a man forced to borrow from loan sharks. The story appeared in Collier's with two other illustrations by Sloan.