Drawn to Satire: John Sloan’s Illustrations for the Novels of Charles Paul de Kock
Oct. 24, 2009–March 29, 2010
Scott Galleries, Chandler Wing
From 1903 to 1905, American artist John Sloan created 53 etchings to illustrate comic novels by French author Charles Paul de Kock. The books—satires of French society in the first half of the 19th century, full of slapstick violence—were a perfect subject for Sloan’s lively etching style of short, expressive lines and loose cross-hatching. More...