Studies for "Faint Heart" and "Innocent Girlish Prattle"
Date1913
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
Illustration CitationPreliminary sketches for "Faint Heart," from "Lovers Idle," by Robert Carlton Brown, in Harper's Weekly, September 20, 1913; and "Innocent Girlish Prattle," cover design for The Masses, November 1913.
MediumInk and crayon on paper
Dimensionssheet: 5 13/16 × 6 1/4 in. (14.8 × 15.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 2000
Object number2000-130
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextThe sketches on this sheet were ideas for urban-themed cartoons for Harper's Weekly and The Masses. The drawing labeled "Flirtation" became an illustration for Robert Carlton Brown's "Lovers Idle," and Sloan worked up the lower concept to be a cover for The Masses.
