John Sloan and Peter A. Platt
Copyist at the Metropolitan Museum
1908
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet: 315 x 355 mm. (12 3/8 x 14 in.)
Plate: 191 x 227 mm. (7 1/2 x 8 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Bennard Perlman, Baltimore
Object Number
2000.397
Sloan's prints of New York City often offer a biting commentary on society. Here a copyist at the Metropolitan Museum garners more attention than the masterpieces around her. Sloan included himself walking through the gallery with wife Dolly at the left. Sloan apparently reworked his and Dolly's face multiple times. He wrote in his 1945 diary: "I've always had trouble with portraits of members of the family. I had the head of Dolly in and out of the plate innumerable times."
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2000; Bennard Perlman, Baltimore
David Curry & Ann Shafer, BMA, "American Realism: Ashcan Artists," January 9-April 6, 2008.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: lower left in graphite: "100 proofs"; lower right in graphite: "John Sloan"; lower center in graphite: "Copyist at the Metropolitan Museum"
