I Helped Him All I Could, Looking Up the Worst Long Words in the Dictionary, (painting).

I Helped Him All I Could, Looking Up the Worst Long Words in the Dictionary, (painting).

Sloan, John, 1871-1951, painter.

I Helped Him All I Could, Looking Up the Worst Long Words in the Dictionary, (painting).

Pastel on paper.

An interior scene depicting a young man and an elderly man seated on opposite sides of a table, each absorbed in his work. The ederly man holds a large pipe in his right hand and rest his left hand on a book he is reading. The young man jots down notes on a tablet atop the table, and rests his right hand on an open book.

Literature -- Poole -- Queerest Thing in America

Literature -- Saturday Evening Post

Architecture interior -- Domestic -- House

Figure group -- Male

Recreation -- Leisure -- Reading

Recreation -- Leisure -- Smoking

Miller, Victoria,

Illustration for The Queerest Thing in America: Told by Ludwig, the Little German Cobbler by Ernest Poole published in Saturday Evening Post, Oct. 20, 1906.

Elzea, Rowland, and Elizabeth Hawkes, "John Sloan: Spectator of Life," Wilmington, DE: Delaware Art Museum, 1988, pg. 65.

Elzea, Rowland, and Elizabeth Hawkes, "John Sloan: Spectator of Life," Wilmington, DE: Delaware Art Museum, 1988, pg. 65.

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