Altered Cover of The Ladies' World
Date1914
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumGraphite and colored pencil on magazine page
Dimensionssheet: 16 × 11 1/4 in. (40.6 × 28.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 2000
Object number2000-131
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextPeriodically, from 1906 through the 1940s, Sloan transformed the covers of major magazines through his clever additions. This example, with its multiplicity of noses, eyes, lips, and ears, is probably a play on the tag line: "Forty Features For Ten Cents."
