Self-Portrait
Date1890
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumOil on window shade
Dimensions14 × 11 7/8 in. (35.6 × 30.2 cm)
frame: 17 1/2 × 15 1/2 in. (44.5 × 39.4 cm)
frame: 17 1/2 × 15 1/2 in. (44.5 × 39.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1970
Object number1970-14
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextWorking from a book, A Manual of Oil Painting by John Collier, Sloan taught himself the basics of oil painting when he was 19 years old. Probably his earliest effort, this Self-Portrait was painted on a window shade and stretched, later, by his father.
