Of Human Bondage, Chapter 71
1937
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View on museum website →Medium
etching in black on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 14.92 × 10 cm (5 7/8 × 3 15/16 in.) sheet: 29.05 × 23.02 cm (11 7/16 × 9 1/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Olga Hirshhorn)
Accession Number
2015.19.3430
About the Artist
John Sloan
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...