Artist Sloan visualized author Pollock musing over Harun-al-Rashid, who so frequently locked his crown in the cellarette, dressed in the clothes of a beggar, and went off for the evening

© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publica…
© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publication.
Artist Sloan visualized author Pollock musing over Harun-al-Rashid, who so frequently locked his crown in the cellarette, dressed in the clothes of a beggar, and went off for the evening
© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publication.

Artist Sloan visualized author Pollock musing over Harun-al-Rashid, who so frequently locked his crown in the cellarette, dressed in the clothes of a beggar, and went off for the evening

Date1940
Artist (American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
Illustration Citation"Thank God for a Dull Life," by Channing Pollock, in Rotarian, September 1940.
MediumInk, gouache, and graphite on paper
Dimensionssheet: 15 × 20 15/16 in. (38.1 × 53.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 2000
Object number2000-274
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
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