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Copyist at the Metropolitan Museum

Copyist at the Metropolitan Museum

Artist/Maker (American, 1871–1951)
Date1908
MediumEtching
DimensionsImage: 7 3/8 × 8 7/8 in. (18.8 × 22.5 cm)
Sheet: 12 1/16 × 14 13/16 in. (30.6 × 37.7 cm)
Credit LineOberlin Friends of Art Fund
EditionOne of fifteen early impressions printed by the artist, from an edition of 100 (of which 75 printed).
Object number1994.49
Status
Not on view
CopyrightPublic domainMore Information
Noted for the close observation and realism of his depictions of the contemporary urban scene, Sloan took a dim view of those who copied art rather than life. This vignette of a polite young woman diligently copying an academic landscape painting gently pokes fun at such cloistered, second-hand experiences of the natural world.
Exhibition History
Purchase Party Exhibition
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (November 23, 1994 - December 15, 1994 )
Selected Acquisitions, 1991-1995
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (January 20, 1996 - April 18, 1996 )
Changing Visions of the North American Landscape
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (October 24, 2000 - January 28, 2001 )
Regarding Realism
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 6, 2013 - June 22, 2014 )
Transformation: Images of Childhood and Adolescence
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 1, 2015 - December 23, 2015 )
Collections
  • Modern & Contemporary
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