Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Now, Really Mr. Smith - You Must Know That We Can't Do Business on That Basis

Artist John Sloan (American, 1871 - 1951)

Date1909

MediumInk over graphite on paper

Dimensions12 x 13 1/2 in. (30.5 x 34.3 cm)

ClassificationsDrawings

Credit LineFrom the collection of Dr. August and L. Tommie Freundlich

Object number2010.44.71

Collections

MODERN

DescriptionA woman in Victorian dress leans over a table/desk speaking to a man in a chair holding a pen; an open safe and a portrait on the far wall of the office; an open door shows a book open on a desk beyond the office; text below reads, "Now, Really Mr. Smith - You Must Know That We Can't Do Business on That Basis". Study for illustration in Frank Marshall White's "The Crusade against the Loan Sharks," Munsey's, November 1913.