Easter Eve, Washington Square
Made from a zinc plate, which Sloan notes he hardly ever used due to how soft it is - you cannot work on them long before they wear down. This print was started as a pure etching, but Sloan felt the lines were bitten too deeply and coarsely, so he added aquatint, see: Morse 1969, p. 247.
Artwork Details
- Title: Easter Eve, Washington Square
- Artist: John Sloan (American, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania 1871–1951 Hanover, New Hampshire)
- Date: 1926
- Medium: Etching and aquatint
- Dimensions: Plate: 9 15/16 × 7 15/16 in. (25.2 × 20.2 cm)
Sheet: 13 11/16 × 10 15/16 in. (34.7 × 27.8 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, 1926
- Object Number: 26.30.160
- Rights and Reproduction: © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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