Factory in Ruins
Date1892
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumWatercolor on paper
Dimensionssheet: 10 3/16 × 7 in. (25.9 × 17.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1986
Object number1986-133.341
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextAlthough Sloan is most famous for urban images, some of his earliest works were rural landscapes. Painted during one of his weekend excursions in the country outside Philadelphia with fellow Inquirer artists, Joe Laub and William Glackens, this watercolor shows an abandoned factory decaying amidst trees and bushes. Once "modern" but now in ruins, this manmade structure reclaimed by nature seems picturesque in an almost Romantic sense.
