Collections: American Art: Memory (Family Group)

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Memory (Family Group)

One of Sloan’s most popular etchings, this scene recalls the many quiet evenings Sloan and his wife, Dolly, spent in the company of Linda and Robert Henri after their move to New York in 1904. The scene takes place in the Henris’ studio. As Linda reads, Dolly stares pensively, while their husbands smoke and sketch. Each is lost in his or her own thoughts yet comfortable in the others’ silent presence; this, Sloan implies, is the essence of real friendship. Sloan made this etching in January 1906, just weeks after Linda’s death from gastritis.


• Artist: John Sloan, American, 1871-1951
• Medium: Etching on wove paper
• Dates: 1906
• Dimensions: Image: 7 x 8 5/8 in. (17.8 x 21.9 cm) Sheet: 12 3/4 x 18 3/4 in. (32.4 x 47.6 cm)
• Signature: Signed lower right, in plate: "John Sloan / 1906"
• Collections: American Art
• Museum Location: This item is not on view
• Accession Number: 64.101.321
• Edition: 100
• Credit Line: Gift of The Louis E. Stern Foundation, Inc.
• Image: Overall, 64.101.321_bw_SL1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
John Sloan (American, 1871-1951). Memory (Family Group), 1906. Etching on wove paper, Image: 7 x 8 5/8 in. (17.8 x 21.9 cm) Sheet: 12 3/4 x 18 3/4 in. (32.4 x 47.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of The Louis E. Stern Foundation, Inc., 64.101.321 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 64.101.321_bw_SL1.jpg)