Nude Dancer with Snake
Datec. 1901
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumGraphite, ink, and gouache on brown paper
Dimensionssheet: 12 3/8 × 10 in. (31.4 × 25.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1986
Object number1986-133.52
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextIn this stunning image, Sloan celebrates the body's potential for elegant and erotic motion. A solitary female figure, holding a writhing snake above her head, sways to the rhythm of a mysterious dance. Through undulating serpentine lines, softly modeled forms, and delicately colored flesh, Sloan achieves an overall effect of sensuous dynamism.
Stanley Massey Arthurs
1896
