The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 24, 2025
Spring, Central Park
1921
(American, 1882–1925)
Platemark: 21.4 x 17.6 cm (8 7/16 x 6 15/16 in.); Sheet: 28.2 x 23.9 cm (11 1/8 x 9 7/16 in.)
Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr. 1936.587
Catalogue raisonné: Mason 90
Location: Not on view
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These fashionably dressed young women are sporting fur muffs over their hands, whose large size denotes them as luxury items.Description
Within the city’s many parks, people from different social classes could mingle and observe one another. Both the men and women in this print are dressed in fashionable attire, and yet it remains unclear if the groups are of the same social class. By 1921, clothing mimicking couture fashions could be purchased off the rack, and even working-class men could buy the “white collars” associated with businessmen. The two ladies appear unaffected by the men’s laughter and backward glances; unaccompanied, and apparently absorbed in conversation, they epitomized the increasing independence of young urban women.- Ashcan School Prints and the American City, 1900–1940. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 18-December 26, 2021).George Bellows Prints: Centennial Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 7-October 31, 1982).
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