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JOHN SLOAN Schuylkill River.
Etching, 1894. 210x133 mm; 8 1/4x5 1/4 inches, full margins. Edition of 25 (from an intended edition of 100). Signed, titled and inscribed "100 proofs" in pencil, lower margin. A very good, dark impression of this extremely scarce, early etching, with the tackholes for drying at the extreme sheet edges.
Born in Philadelphia, Sloan (1871-1951) was America's leading etcher during the early 1900s. He worked a variety of commercial illustrator jobs in Philadelphia during the 1890s and took evening classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1892. In 1904, he moved to New York where his popularity as both a printmaker and painter grew along with fellow 'Ashcan School' artists George Bellows, William Glackens, George Luks and Robert Henri (his former teacher).
This etching, a view of a sailboat docked on the Schuykill River in Philadelphia, recalls Whistler's Thames etchings from 35 years earlier. Morse 60.
