Why not take the Buoy friend into the tub with you?

© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publica…
© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publication.
Why not take the Buoy friend into the tub with you?
© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publication.

Why not take the Buoy friend into the tub with you?

Date1940
Artist (American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumInk on paper
Dimensionssheet: 4 3/16 × 5 1/4 in. (10.6 × 13.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1986
Object number1986-133.541
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextLifebuoy was one of the most popular brands of soap on the market in the 1930s and 1940s. In the forties, the company's advertisements featured women in bath tubs, who addressed the reader flirtatiously with "Hey, Sailor!" Sloan's spoof takes it a step further.
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