Altered Cover of The Saturday Evening Post

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© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publication.
Altered Cover of The Saturday Evening Post
© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publication.

Altered Cover of The Saturday Evening Post

Date1907
Artist (American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumColored pencil on magazine cover
Dimensionssheet: 14 3/16 × 11 1/4 in. (36 × 28.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 2000
Object number2000-635
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextThe disembodied heads of pretty girls, so often featured on the covers of magazines in the early 20th century, provided endless opportunities for comic embellishment by John Sloan.