Anshutz on Anatomy

John Sloan American
1912
Not on view
Thomas Anshutz was Sloan's teacher at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. The scene depicted shows Anshutz delivering a lecture on anatomy to Robert Henri's students at the New York School of Art in 1905. Pictured in the audience are Walter Pach, William Glackens, Maurice Prendergast, George Bellows, Robert Henri and his wife Linda, and Sloan and his wife Dolly, see: Morse 1969, p. 179–80.

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  • Title: Anshutz on Anatomy
  • Artist: John Sloan (American, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania 1871–1951 Hanover, New Hampshire)
  • Date: 1912
  • Medium: Etching
  • Dimensions: Plate: 7 5/16 × 8 7/8 in. (18.6 × 22.5 cm)
    Sheet: 12 5/8 × 13 3/4 in. (32 × 35 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, 1926
  • Object Number: 26.30.34
  • Rights and Reproduction: © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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