Self-Portrait
Date1894
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions15 × 7 1/4 in. (38.1 × 18.4 cm)
frame: 19 7/8 × 11 3/4 in. (50.5 × 29.8 cm)
frame: 19 7/8 × 11 3/4 in. (50.5 × 29.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1970
Object number1970-15
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextThe loose brushwork and warm tones of this self-portrait betray the influence of Robert Henri, a young painter that Sloan met in December 1892. Henri encouraged Sloan, a newspaper illustrator, to take up painting more seriously in the mid-1890s.
