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American Art

Memory (Family Group)

John Sloan

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Object Label

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.

Caption

John Sloan (American, 1871–1951). Memory (Family Group), 1906. Etching on off-white, medium thick, moderately textured wove paper, Image: 7 1/16 x 8 5/8 in. (17.9 x 21.9 cm) Sheet: 12 13/16 x 18 11/16 in. (32.6 x 47.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of The Louis E. Stern Foundation, Inc., 64.101.321. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

American Art

Title

Memory (Family Group)

Date

1906

Medium

Etching on off-white, medium thick, moderately textured wove paper

Classification

Print

Dimensions

Image: 7 1/16 x 8 5/8 in. (17.9 x 21.9 cm) Sheet: 12 13/16 x 18 11/16 in. (32.6 x 47.4 cm)

Signatures

Signed lower right, in plate: "John Sloan / 1906"

Inscriptions

Inscribed, upper left, in graphite: "4-"; lower left, in graphite: "Memory, 1905"; lower center, in graphite: "100 proofs"; lower right, in graphite: "os 35".

Credit Line

Gift of The Louis E. Stern Foundation, Inc.

Accession Number

64.101.321

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Artists and makers

John Sloan

15 works in the collection