Cover, The Philadelphia Press Almanac
Date1897
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
Illustration CitationCover design for The Philadelphia Press Almanac for 1897: A Comprehensive Cyclopaedia of Historical and Statistical Facts (Philadelphia: The Press Company, 1897.)
MediumOffset lithograph
Dimensionssheet: 8 5/16 × 5 3/8 in. (21.1 × 13.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1986
Object number1986-126
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextSloan's graphic style combined sinuous lines and areas of flat pattern, related to the "poster style" of the mid-1890s.
John Cage
1974, published 1975
