Robert W. Sneddon at his Desk

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Robert W. Sneddon at his Desk
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Robert W. Sneddon at his Desk

Date1910
MediumInk on paper
Dimensionssheet: 6 1/16 × 7 11/16 in. (15.4 × 19.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1980
Object number1980-214.104a
On View
Not on view
Label TextSneddon was a fiction writer and friend of Sloan and John Butler Yeats. He is among the dinner guests pictured in Sloan's painting Yeats at Petitpas' from 1910.
Image Not Available for Robert W. Sneddon
Robert W. Sneddon
John Butler Yeats
c. 1910
Image Not Available for Study for "He took one of the packets of pasteboard slips from his desk, and shuffling them like a pack of cards, continued, 'Your name is Marie Paul Violaine'"
Study for "He took one of the packets of pasteboard slips from his desk, and shuffling them like a pack of cards, continued, 'Your name is Marie Paul Violaine'"
John Sloan
1913
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Fred Comegys
October 1975
Image Not Available for Illustrated initial W for Kidnapped / Headpiece for chapter XXIII / landscape with trees
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Louis John Rhead
1921
Image Not Available for Postcard to Robert Henri with Sketch of Sloan Driving Car in Ditch
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John Sloan
1922
Image Not Available for The Masses; His Reverence: "Thus, friends, we see the masses filled with a vague, unchristian spirit of discontent. They cry out upon work, bewailing their divinely appointed lot, forgetful, my brethren, of the heavenly law which ordains that only through toil and tribulation, by the narrow path of self-denial, may we enter into the higher values of spiritual blessedness...let us pray!"
The Masses; His Reverence: "Thus, friends, we see the masses filled with a vague, unchristian spirit of discontent. They cry out upon work, bewailing their divinely appointed lot, forgetful, my brethren, of the heavenly law which ordains that only through toil and tribulation, by the narrow path of self-denial, may we enter into the higher values of spiritual blessedness...let us pray!"
John Sloan
1913
Image Not Available for 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
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John Sloan
1940
Image Not Available for The Soldier Wiped His Rifle
The Soldier Wiped His Rifle
John Sloan
1910
Image Not Available for Fragment of letter from John Sloan to his wife Dolly, May 26, 1909
Fragment of letter from John Sloan to his wife Dolly, May 26, 1909
John Sloan
1909
Image Not Available for Figure Reading at a Desk
Figure Reading at a Desk
John Sloan
1935
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To H. W.
Esther Becker Goetz
c. 1930
Image Not Available for Headpiece and letter W for The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table; The Voiceless
Headpiece and letter W for The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table; The Voiceless
Howard Pyle
1894
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