Study for "Six O'Clock, Winter"

© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publica…
© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publication.
Study for "Six O'Clock, Winter"
© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publication.

Study for "Six O'Clock, Winter"

Date1912
Artist (American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumCrayon on paper
Dimensionssheet: 9 1/4 × 12 7/16 in. (23.5 × 31.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1980
Object number1980-214.124
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextThis drawing of an elevated train appears to be a study for one of Sloan's most famous city pictures, Six O'Clock, Winter, in the Phillips Collection. In the final painting the lively crowd below the elevated train—indicated here only by scribbles—becomes the artist's focus.