Studies for "Faint Heart" and "Innocent Girlish Prattle"

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Studies for "Faint Heart" and "Innocent Girlish Prattle"
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Studies for "Faint Heart" and "Innocent Girlish Prattle"

Date1913
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
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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.
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