At the Seaside
Date1894
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
Illustration Citation"Seaside," in the Philadelphia Inquirer, July 15, 1894, and August 5, 1894
MediumInk and graphite on Bristol board
Dimensionscomposition: 11 × 6 1/2 in. (27.9 × 16.5 cm)
sheet: 12 × 7 9/16 in. (30.5 × 19.2 cm)
sheet: 12 × 7 9/16 in. (30.5 × 19.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1987
Object number1987-10
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextFrom 1892 to 1904, Sloan worked as a newspaper illustrator in Philadelphia. Never able to work quickly, he preferred assignments that allowed him to compose narrative scenes at his desk to on-the-spot reporting. The influence of Japanese prints upon his work is apparent in the elegant use of line, compressed space, and decorative patterning—elements which reveal Sloan's early facility to reduce a scene to its essentials through simplified line and bold drawing.
