Marianna Sloan
Date1888
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumEtching
Dimensionsplate: 4 7/8 × 3 3/16 in. (12.4 × 8.1 cm)
sheet: 11 1/4 × 7 15/16 in. (28.6 × 20.2 cm)
sheet: 11 1/4 × 7 15/16 in. (28.6 × 20.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1992
Object number1992-12
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextSloan made this etching of his sister, nicknamed "Nan," when she was thirteen. Her relative youth in this image suggests that it was made from memory of her at an earlier age. In 1950 she recalled that he created it during a blizzard in the winter of 1888.
