Sunday, Drying Their Hair on the Roof
1923
John Sloan
Artist, American, 1871 - 1951
Printer, American, 1865 - 1936
Artwork overview
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Medium
lithograph in black on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 19.21 × 23.18 cm (7 9/16 × 9 1/8 in.)
sheet: 24.45 × 33.81 cm (9 5/8 × 13 5/16 in.) -
Accession Number
2015.19.747
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Catalogue Raisonné
Morse 1969, no. 209
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Kraushaar Galleries, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1951; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1977
American Lithographs from the Corcoran's Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 34
1980
The Common Touch, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1980-1981
1981
Of Time and Place: American Figurative Art from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1981-1983, pp. 108-109, no. 41, repro
2013
Recent Acquisitions: American Art from the Johns Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2013-2014
Bibliography
1923
Sloan, John. "Among the Four Million." Century Magazine 106, no. 4 (August 1923): p. 569.
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. 234, no. 209.
Inscriptions
lower right on stone: John Sloan '23; lower left in graphite: 25 proofs; lower left in graphite: Bolton Brown - imp.; lower center in graphite: Sunday, Drying their Hair; lower right in graphite: John Sloan; lower right corner in graphite by unknown hand: 25
Wikidata ID
Q77013719