Sketches for "The Savings Bank" and Figure Sketches
Datec. 1911
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumGraphite on paper
Dimensionssheet: 6 5/8 × 9 1/4 in. (16.8 × 23.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1986
Object number1986-135.152
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextThis sheet of sketches seems to relate to Sloan's painting of the Greenwich Village Savings Bank. Sloan began considering the subject in 1908, but the painting was not complete until late in 1911. His notes on the sheet—"widows faces grave" and "Blind unaccompanied at booth"—are not his usual color notations and testify instead to his interest in the lives of the people waiting, which he noted in his diary on January 20, 1908.
