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Portrait of John Sloan"" – Vintage Photo Print

Portrait of John Sloan"" — historic print
Portrait of John Sloan"". Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic print captures Portrait of John Sloan"" in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Portrait of John Sloan""

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John Sloan, the Philadelphia-born painter and printmaker, is the subject here, and the sitter's own role as an artist shapes how this drypoint reads. Sloan trained as an illustrator before turning to fine art, and he became one of the core members of the Ashcan School, a group of early twentieth-century American painters who recorded the gritty street life of New York City. Drypoint, a technique in which the artist scratches lines directly into a metal plate, lets the printmaker build tone through burr and fine hatching, so a portrait made this way tends to feel immediate and textured. The caption card does not record a date, so the exact year of this impression is uncertain.

Medium1 print : drypoint.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,039 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-119871

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