Medusa Beer Truck
1908
Medium
graphite, black crayon, brush and black and gray ink with gray wash on paperboard
Dimensions
overall: 29.4 x 55.3 cm (11 9/16 x 21 3/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
John Davis Hatch Collection, Avalon Fund
Accession Number
1983.2.6
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
John Sloan · 1871–1951
John French Sloan was born on August 2, 1871, in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Philadelphia, where he taught himself to draw largely through self-study and reproductions before taking evening classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Thomas Anshutz around 1892. That same year he met the painter Robert Henri, who became his closest friend and most influential mentor, enc...