Emma Goldman's Deportation

© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publica…
© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Emma Goldman's Deportation
© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publication.

Emma Goldman's Deportation

Date1919
Artist (American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumGraphite on paper
Dimensionscomposition: 2 3/8 × 3 1/2 in. (6 × 8.9 cm)
sheet: 5 3/16 × 6 3/16 in. (13.2 × 15.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 2000
Object number2000-23
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextOn December 21, 1919, the anarchist Emma Goldman was one of over 200 political radicals deported to the Soviet Union on the S.S. Buford. Sloan, who had been an active Socialist in the early 1910s, made a series of sketches of the event.