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JOHN SLOAN Night Windows.
Etching, 1910. 131x174 mm; 5 1/4x6 7/8 inches, full margins. Fifth state (of 5). Printer's proof, aside from the edition of 110 (from an intended edition of 100). Inscribed with the artist's name and "printer's proof" by Helen Farr Sloan, wife of the artist, with her initials, in pencil, lower margin. Printed by Peters Brothers, Philadelphia, with their inscription and "imp." in pencil, lower left. A very good, richly-inked impression.
In his diary, Sloan (1871-1951) wrote, "The subject of this plate is one which I have had in mind—night, the roofs back of us—a girl in deshabille at a window and a man on the roof smoking his pipe." It seems that he struggled with the execution of this idea, however; at various points he refers to this plate as "a pretty bad snarl," and "a mess of line." After roughly two years of work, he finally deemed the plate fit for publishing. Morse 152.
