Minneapolis Institute of Art
Roofs, Summer Night
John SloanLinkedCulture matchlcp-86d81ad6250b
- Date
- 1906
- Medium
- Etching
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Object ID
- 52588
From the Minneapolis Institute of Art record
John Sloan taught himself to etch from books. One of his first and most important fine-art efforts was a series called New York City Life, which includes Roofs, Summer Night. I always liked to watch the people in the summer, especially the way they live on the roofs, he wrote. However, Sloan's attempts to record the unvarnished realities of urban life were too racy for the early 1900s, and he had barely any takers even at $2 a print. Still, he broke ground by introducing topical urban imagery into American etching. United States, Americas
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- Credit line
- The William Hood Dunwoody Fund, 1915
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