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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

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original language: Connoisseurs of Prints

series (original language): New York City Life

Artist

John Sloan (American, 1871-1951)

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

etching

intaglio printing

intaglio prints

studios

Description

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.

History
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2002 Setting the Scene: Interior Portland Art Museum

2013 In the Studio: Reflections on Artistic Life Portland Art Museum

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