Connoisseurs of Prints, from the series New York City Life
John Sloan, Connoisseurs of Prints, from the series New York City Life, 1905, etching on paper, Gift of Heirs of Charles Francis Adams Collection: Peter F. Adams, Mrs. Sandra Adams Beebe, and Charles Anthony Adams, © 1905 Estate of John Sloan, 89.20.73
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- Title
Connoisseurs of Prints, from the series New York City Life
- Related Titles
original language: Connoisseurs of Prints
series (original language): New York City Life
- Artist
- Date
1905
- Medium
etching on paper
- Edition
unnumbered edition of 100
- Catalogue Raisonné
Morse 127
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image: 4 1/2 in x 6 3/4 in; sheet: 9 1/8 in x 12 in
- Collection Area
Graphic Arts
- Category
Prints
- Object Type
intaglio print
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Gift of Heirs of Charles Francis Adams Collection: Peter F. Adams, Mrs. Sandra Adams Beebe, and Charles Anthony Adams
- Accession Number
89.20.73
- Copyright
© 1905 Estate of John Sloan
- Terms
Perhaps more than any other artist of his generation, John Sloan created prints that captured the textures and rhythms of New York life in the early part of the twentieth century.
Connoisseurs of Prints is part of a series of ten etchings that focus on daily life in the big city. Here he mocks the self-important visitors to a gallery or museum, keenly admiring the prints on the walls. He was likely inspired by Honoré Daumier, whose caricatures of gallery- and museum-goers delighted Parisians in mid- to late-nineteenth-century France, and which were widely known in art circles in the United States.
- Exhibitions
2002 Setting the Scene: Interior Portland Art Museum
2013 In the Studio: Reflections on Artistic Life Portland Art Museum