SLOAN, John

American (1871 – 1951)

Night Windows, 1910

Morse 152 v/v. Etching on laid paper, full margins with deckled edges. Printed by Peter Platt. Edition of 110. Signed, titled, and inscribed “100 proofs” and “Peter Platt imp” in pencil.

5 ¼  x 7 inches | 13.3 x 17.8 cm.

In Night Windows, Sloan offers a compelling nocturnal scene observed across adjacent New York tenements. The viewer peers into private moments: a woman hanging laundry out her window, another figure in a nightgown tending to her hair, and a lone man perched on a rooftop, smoking and watching, a voyeuristic tableau in the spirit of the film Rear Window.  John Sloan himself referred to this impulse to observe others quietly as central to his practice and wrote about this print: ” The subject of the plate is one in which I had in mind – night, the roofs back of us – a girl in the deshabille at a window and a man on the roof smoking his pipe and taking in the charms while at a window blow him his wife is busy hanging out his washed linen”.

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