Fifth Avenue Critics - 1905, Etching.

Morse 128. Edition 100. Signed and titled in pencil. Inscribed 100 proofs in the bottom center margin and #14 in the bottom left sheet corner.

Image size 4 9/16 x 6 3/4 inches (116 x 171 mm); sheet size 9 11/16 x 12 9/16 inches(245 x 320 mm).

A superb, early impression, with rich burr, on Van Gelder Zonen cream laid paper; full margins (2 7/16 to 2 7/8 inches). The printer's tack holes in the sheet edges, in excellent condition.

Ex collection Lynn E. Prasse, former curator of Prints and Drawings at the Cleveland Museum of Art, with her initials in pencil in the top right sheet corner, recto, and her 2 collection stamps, verso.

“These two fashionable ladies used to drive up and down Fifth Avenue everyday.... about four o’clock of an afternoon, showing themselves and criticizing others” –John Sloan (1946).

$4400.

Man Monkey - 1905, Etching.

Morse 130. Edition 100. Signed and titled in pencil. Inscribed 100 proof.

Image size 4 7/8 x 6 7/8 inches (124 x 175 mm), sheet size 9 11/16 x 12 3/8 inches (246 x 315 mm).

A fine, rich impression, with full margins (2 3/8 to 2 7/8 inches) on cream wove paper. The printer's tack holes in the sheet edges, in excellent condition.

“In the side streets of Chelsea and Greenwich Village districts, the one man band with hand organ accompanist furnished free entertainment to those who dropped no pennies. He worried the horse-drawn traffic of the time, but before many years the automobile and motor truck cleared him from the streets” –John Sloan (1946).

$2600.

Copyist at the Metropolitan Museum - 1908, Etching.

Morse 148. Edition Sloan 100, (75 printed); Weyhe 115. Signed in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, bottom center.

Image size 7 3/8 x 8 7/8 inches (187 x 225 mm); sheet size 9 3/8 x 11 inches (238 x 279 mm).

A superb impression, in warm black ink, on cream wove Kitakata Japan paper, with margins (1 to 1 1/4 inches), in excellent condition.

An impression from the Weyhe edition. The two figures in the left foreground are John Sloan and his wife Dolly.

“I remember having trouble with an attempt at likenesses of myself and Dolly.... Why should an artist be so critical in such an unimportant matter?” –John Sloan (1946)

Reproduced in American Master Prints from the Betty and Douglas Duffy Collection, The Trust for Museum Exhibitions, Washington, D.C., 1987. Collections: LC Purchase, Pennell Fund, NYPL.

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Night Windows - 1910, Etching.

Morse 152. Edition 100 (110 printed). Signed, titled, and annotated 100 proofs in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower left.

Image size 5 1/8 x 6 3/4 inches (130 x 171 mm); sheet size 9 5/8 x 12 1/2 inches (232 x 318 mm).

A fine, rich impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (2 1/4 to 2 7/8 inches). Tack holes in the outside margins; minor toning in the margins, well away from the image; otherwise in excellent condition.

Exhibited in the Armory Show, New York, 1913.

Collections: The Phillips Collection, National Gallery of Art, Delaware Art Museum, The Library of Congress.

$9000.

Mosaic- 1917, Etching and Aquatint.

Morse 185. Edition 100, only 35 printed. Signed and inscribed 100 proofs in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower right; titled, lower left.

Image size 7 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches (197 x 248 mm); sheet size 12 5/8 x 14 inches (321 x 356 mm).

A superb impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (2 to 2 1/2 inches); the printer’s tack holes at the sheet edges, in excellent condition. Scarce.

Printed by Peter Platt (25 impressions) and Ernest Roth (10 impressions).

“The plate is a satire on abstract art, and implies that followers of this trend are obeying the Mosaic Law: Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image or any likeness of anything in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth.” –John Sloan

$5500.

New Year's Eve and Adam- 1918, Etching.

Morse 190. Edition 100, only 85 printed. Signed, titled and annotated 100 proofs in pencil. Signed in the plate, lower left.

Image size 3 3/4 x 2 3/4 inches (95 x 70 mm); sheet size 8 1/2 x 6 inches (216 x 152 mm).

A fine impression, on antique cream laid paper, with full margins (1 5/8 to 2 3/8 inches), in excellent condition. Printed by Ernest Roth.

Sloan used this print as a greeting card for New Year’s 1919.

"With some exaggeration this records an incident of the holiday season in a New York Hotel, the Brevoort." –J.S.

$1100.

The Movey Troupe - 1920, Etching.

Morse 196. Edition 100, 50 printed. Signed, titled and annotated 100 proofs in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower right and titled, lower left.

Image size 5 1/4 x 7 7/8 inches (133 x 181 mm); sheet size 9 7/8 x 12 3/4 inches (251 x 324 mm).

A fine, crisp impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (2 3/8 to 3 inches). Original tack holes in the sheet edges, in excellent condition. Printed by Peter Platt.

"Director, leading man, leading lady, and camera man have made use of one of the picturesque backgrounds to be found in Greenwich Village at that time" (John Sloan 1945).

$2200.

Snowstorm in the Village- 1920, Etching.

Morse 216. Edition 100 (3rd state of 3). Signed, titled and annotated 100 proofs in pencil.

Image size 7 x 5 inches (178 x 127 mm); sheet size 11 5/8 x 8 1/8 inches (295 x 206 mm).

A fine impression, on antique cream laid paper, with full margins (1 1/2 to 2 3/8 inches); in excellent condition.

$11,500.

Indian Detour - 1927, Etching.

Morse 231. Edition 100 (3rd state of 3). Signed, titled and annotated 100 proofs in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower right.

Image size 6 x 7 1/4 inches (152 x 184 mm); sheet size 10 3/8 x 11 3/4 inches (264 x 298 mm).

A fine, crisp impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (2 1/4 inches), in excellent condition. Printed by Ernest Roth.

“A satire of the Harvey Indian Tour. Buses take the tourists out to view the Indian dances, which are religious ceremonials and naturally not understood as such by the visiting crowds” (Dart 79). This scene is identified as the corn dance at Santa Dominga Pueblo, in an updated article from the Santa Fe New Mexican of August or September 1936.

$5,500.

Fourteenth Street the Wigwam (Tammany Hall) - 1928, Etching.

Morse 235. Edition 100, 110 printed. Signed, titled and annotated 100 proofs in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower left.

Image size 9 11/16 x 6 7/8 inches (246 x 175 mm); sheet size 18 x 12 5/8 inches (457 x 321 mm).

A superb, finely detailed impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (2 3/4 to 4 1/4 inches), the printer's tack holes in the sheet edges, in excellent condition. Printed by Peter Platt.

"Old Tammany Hall, the headquarters of the bosses of New York City, has ceased to exist. It lurked, menacing, in dingy red brick, across the way from the tawdry amusements of East Fourteenth Street. This plate was made in 1928 after the building had been torn down. My memory and a photo of a 1911 painting that had been burned furnished material for this new composition. My painting of 1934 now in the Metropolitan Museum was based on the etching." –John Sloan

Illustrated in American Prize Prints of the 20th Century, Albert Reese, American Artist's Group, Inc., New York, 1949.

Selected for 'Fifty Prints of the Year', 1929.

$5000.

Half Nude on Elbow - 1931, Etching and Engraving.

Morse 250. Edition 100, only 75 printed. Signed, titled and annotated 100 proofs in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower right.

Image size 3 x 4 7/8 inches (76 x 124 mm); sheet size 7 7/8 x 8 1/4 inches (200 x 210 mm).

A fine impression, on cream laid paper, with full margins (1 5/8 to 2 1/2 inches), in excellent condition.

Printed by Peter Platt (25 impressions) and Ernest Roth (50 impressions).

$650.

Nude and Halo - 1931, Etching.

Morse 258. Edition 100, only 45 printed. Signed, titled and annotated 100 proofs in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower left.

Image size 4 7/8 x 4 13/16 inches (98 x 122 mm); sheet size 7 1/8 x 7 11/16 inches (181 x 195 mm).

A fine impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (1 1/4 to 1 7/8 inches), in excellent condition.

“I think we can all agree that this lacks the voluptuous charm of a Boucher or Fragonard. ‘Tis well” –John Sloan (1946).

$950.

Nude and Bowl of Fruit - 1931, Etching and Engraving.

Morse 259. Edition 100, only 50 printed. Signed, titled and annotated 100 proofs in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower left.

Image size 5 1/16 x 10 5/8 inches (129 x 270 mm); sheet size 8 7/8 x 13 7/8 inches (225 x 352 mm).

A superb, crisp impression, in dark brown ink, on cream wove paper, with full margins (1 1/2 to 2 inches). Original tack holes in the sheet edges, in excellent condition.

“The most appreciative remark I have ever heard made about this print was: ‘She looks like metal.’ My liking for this expression indicates the fact that I am not interested in the delicate beauty of human flesh. Worthwhile sculpture has no such sensuous interest” –John Sloan (1946).

$2200.

Nude at Piano - 1933, Etching.

Morse 265. Edition 100, only 85 printed. Signed, titled and annotated 100 proofs in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower right.

Image size 6 7/8 x 5 3/8 inches (175 x 137 mm); sheet size 13 1/4 x 8 3/8 inches (336 x 213 mm).

A fine, clean impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (1 1/2 to 4 inches), in excellent condition.

“A strong relationship between this etching and the painting of Renoir is to me quite noticeable. My own best results in painting of the nude are made with the same graphic intent” –John Sloan (1946).

$1900.

Nude and Arch - 1933, Etching.

Morse 267. Edition 100, only 85 printed. Signed, titled Nude and Washington Arch and annotated 100 proofs in pencil. Signed and dated in the plate, lower right.

Image size 6 7/8 x 5 3/8 inches (175 x 137 mm); sheet size 11 x 8 5/8 inches (279 x 219 mm).

A superb, crisp impression, in dark brown ink, on antique pale grey-green laid paper, with full margins (1 1/2 to 2 1/8 inches), in excellent condition.

“For about ten years [1927-35] my studio overlooked Washington Square, in a house remodelled by George Inness, Jr., son of the great landscape painter” –John Sloan (1945).

SOLD