Nude reading – Historic Print
(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.)
Description
This rare historic print captures Nude reading in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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John Sloan's "Nude Reading" is an etching from 1928, one of the printmaker's studies of a seated nude absorbed in a book, a subject he returned to often in his later years. The print survives in an edition of 100 and is signed on the plate and in pencil, marking it as one of the impressions Sloan approved. Sloan, long associated with the Ashcan School of urban realism in New York, turned to etching in his later career, and his intimate interior scenes of this kind show his attention to quiet domestic life. The watermark on the paper, from the Dutch maker Van Gelder Zonen, is a detail worth noticing for anyone tracing how fine printing papers were sourced.
| Created / published | 1928 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : etching. |
| Subjects | Etching by John Sloan, 1871-1951. Morse 234 (fourth state); Zigrosser 150. Edition of 100. Signed and dated on plate; signed in pencil. Watermark: Van Gelder Zonen Holland. Pennell Fund. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Women--Nudes; Books and reading; Artists works. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,169 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-157604 |
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