Isaac L. Rice, Esq.
Date1915
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumEtching
Dimensionsplate: 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm)
sheet: 19 5/16 × 17 1/8 in. (49.1 × 43.5 cm)
sheet: 19 5/16 × 17 1/8 in. (49.1 × 43.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1998
Object number1998-18
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThe widow of Isaac Rice, a chess master, commissioned Sloan, Bellows, and another artist to draw Rice on his death bed. Sloan needled an etching on the spot, and produced two etchings of Rice at his chess board based on photographs and his own drawings of Rice.