id:			74857
accession number:	2018.1068
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.1068
updated:		2023-08-23 17:48:05.461000

Turning Out the Light, 1905. John Sloan (American, 1871–1951). Etching on wove paper; image: 11.7 x 16.8 cm (4 5/8 x 6 5/8 in.); platemark: 12.4 x 17.3 cm (4 7/8 x 6 13/16 in.); sheet: 23.8 x 30 cm (9 3/8 x 11 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of James and Hanna Bartlett 2018.1068 ©  Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

title:				Turning Out the Light
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creation date:			1905
creation date earliest:		1905
creation date latest:		1905
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creditline:			Gift of James and Hanna Bartlett
copyright:			©  Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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culture:	America, 20th  century
technique:	etching on wove paper
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Etching
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* John Sloan (American, 1871–1951)  - artist

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measurements: Image: 11.7 x 16.8 cm (4 5/8 x 6 5/8 in.); Platemark: 12.4 x 17.3 cm (4 7/8 x 6 13/16 in.); Sheet: 23.8 x 30 cm (9 3/8 x 11 13/16 in.)
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	inscription:	Printed at lower left of image on recto: “John Sloan 1905”
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	inscription:	In graphite at lower left on recto: “Turning out the light”
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	inscription:	In graphite at lower right on recto: “John Sloan”
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	inscription:	In graphite at lower right corner on recto: [illeg.]
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, NY
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	James and Hanna Bartlett, Lincoln, MA
	date: 2002-2018
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	the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: December 3, 2018
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fun fact:
This print was removed from a 1906 exhibition of Sloan’s work because the organizers felt its content was too overtly sexual.

digital description:
This print belongs to a series John Sloan began in 1905 describing life in New York. After moving to the city from Philadelphia in 1904, Sloan worked as an illustrator and depicted the gritty and quotidian aspects of his new environs in prints, paintings, and drawings. Here, a couple prepares for bed in an urban apartment—perhaps similar to where the artist himself lived.

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Literature: Morse, Peter. <em>John Sloan’s Prints: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Etchings, Lithographs, and Posters</em> (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1969)
	page number: 	p. 143, ill. no. 134
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