"Frankie and Johnnie"
Date1928
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
Illustration CitationAct II, Scene 5 of HIM, by e.e. cummings.
MediumEtching
Dimensionsplate: 4 13/16 × 7 7/8 in. (12.2 × 20 cm)
sheet: 9 × 12 9/16 in. (22.9 × 31.9 cm)
sheet: 9 × 12 9/16 in. (22.9 × 31.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1963
Object number1963-20.152
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextSloan captures Hemsley Winfield and Goldye Steiner singing the folk tune, "Frankie and Johnie," from e.e. cummings' play HIM. The three-act play combines elements of vaudeville, the circus, and expressionism, and Sloan thought it "about as thrilling an evening's entertainment as I have ever experienced." The play was first produced at the Provincetown Playhouse in New York in 1928.
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