The Return from Toil, Printer's Proof
Date1913
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
Illustration CitationCover for The Masses, July 1913.
MediumOffset lithograph
Dimensionssheet: 10 7/8 × 10 13/16 in. (27.6 × 27.5 cm)
support: 11 1/8 × 12 in. (28.3 × 30.5 cm)
support: 11 1/8 × 12 in. (28.3 × 30.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1992
Object number1992-36
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThis drawing revisits one of Sloan's favorite themes—a gaggle of young women talking and laughing as they make their way home from work. These happy, healthy young women do not resemble the oppressed workers that socialist periodicals sought to help.
John Sloan
c. 1911-12
study/study
