Sculptress in Red
Date1932
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumFlaxseed tempera underpaint; oil-varnish glaze on panel
Dimensions24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm)
frame: 25 1/8 × 21 1/8 in. (63.8 × 53.7 cm)
frame: 25 1/8 × 21 1/8 in. (63.8 × 53.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of the John Sloan Trust, 2006
Object number2006-14
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextThe model for this portrait is Gitel Kahn, a pupil at the Art Students League and a frequent model for Sloan in the early 1930s. It appears that she is modeling a portrait head of Sloan, but no such work is known; the painting shares this motif to Sloan's 1930 panel Vagis, The Sculptor .
