Rooftop
Date1894
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumInk on paper
Dimensionssheet: 7 13/16 × 4 13/16 in. (19.8 × 12.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1986
Object number1986-133.41
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextAfter a demonstration from prominent Japanese newspaper artist Beisen Kubota, Sloan experimented with his quick-sketch, brush-and-ink method, producing a series of drawings around Philadelphia. This drawing of rooftops foreshadows Sloan's many images of the rooftops of New York.
