Better Mousetraps

1937

John Sloan

Associated Names
John Sloan

Artist, American, 1871 - 1951

The image is from an elevated vantage point and shows a seated figure under a canopy made of branches. The figure faces the open landscape, with the canopy casting long shadows. A road stretches into the distance, curving into a tunnel in a small hill. The horizon is low, bordered by distant hills. The landscape has scattered shrubs and small trees, depicted with detailed cross-hatch brushstrokes. The color palette is black and white, with rugged hills in the background.
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Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1969

  • Morse, Peter. John Sloan's Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Etchings, Lithographs, and Posters. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1969, p. 331, no. 298, ii/ii.

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: John Sloan 37; lower left in graphite: 100 proofs; lower center in graphite: "Better Mousetraps"; lower right in graphite: John Sloan

Wikidata ID

Q76440932

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