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American Art

The Barber Shop

John Sloan

Object Label

This print reveals Sloan’s typically humorous observations of daily city life. Note the small details: the sign above the counter reads “Turpitude the Great Hair Raiser”; the waiting customer is reading Puck, an illustrated humor magazine of the day; and on the pile beside him is The Masses, of which Sloan was the art editor. The print was Sloan’s first experiment with aquatint, a technique that creates tonal effects by using resin dust to make small pits on the surface of the metal printing plate.

Caption

John Sloan (American, 1871–1951). The Barber Shop, 1915. Etching, aquatint and drypoint on wove paper, Sheet: 12 1/2 x 18 15/16 in. (31.8 x 48.1 cm) Image: 9 3/4 x 11 7/8 in. (24.8 x 30.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 41.437.

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

American Art

Title

The Barber Shop

Date

1915

Medium

Etching, aquatint and drypoint on wove paper

Classification

Print

Dimensions

Sheet: 12 1/2 x 18 15/16 in. (31.8 x 48.1 cm) Image: 9 3/4 x 11 7/8 in. (24.8 x 30.2 cm)

Signatures

Signed lower right, in plate: "John Sloan '15"; lower right, in graphite: "John Sloan" ["Sloan" underlined].

Inscriptions

Inscribed, lower left corner, in graphite: "47 C3421"; lower left: "100 proofs"; lower center, in graphite: "The Barber Shop".

Credit Line

Dick S. Ramsay Fund

Accession Number

41.437

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Artists and makers

John Sloan

15 works in the collection