The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Shine, Washington Square, New York City
1923
(American, 1871–1951)
Image: 18.2 x 22.7 cm (7 3/16 x 8 15/16 in.); Sheet: 24.3 x 38.7 cm (9 9/16 x 15 1/4 in.)
© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Catalogue raisonné: Morse 210
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
Washington Arch, seen behind the figures in this print, was dedicated in 1895 as a monument to the centenary of George Washington’s inauguration.Description
In the 1920s, a growing number of women worked in secretarial and retail jobs in America’s cities. Many artists could not resist portraying these unaccompanied women as they enjoyed the city on their lunch hours or spent their meager wages in pursuit of fun. Here, John Sloan captured a humorous dynamic in Washington Square Park, near his Greenwich Village apartment. As two young women converse, they are oblivious to the older man on the same bench who appears fascinated by the available view of the woman’s leg.- Catalogue of an exhibition of the art of lithography: commemorating the sesquicentennial of its invention, 1798-1948. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, November 11, 1948-January 2, 1949. Published as: Shoe Shine, Washington Square, New York City. Mentioned: p. 64 archive.org
- Ashcan School Prints and the American City, 1900-1940. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 18-December 26, 2021).Urban Vicissitudes. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 2-September 29, 1985).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1941.526