The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 14, 2025
The People Work: Evening
1937
(American, 1904–1967)
Platemark: 34.6 x 48.2 cm (13 5/8 x 19 in.); Sheet: 40.3 x 58.4 cm (15 7/8 x 23 in.)
Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2006.114.3
Catalogue raisonné: Fine and Looney 143
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
This series of lithographs shows the artist Benton Spruance’s affinity for Mexican mural painting by such artists as Diego Rivera.Description
These unusual cross-section views of New York City imagine the daily commute in the big city as a beehive or ant colony that never stops. Morning is the subway commute, while Noon presents dock workers on break during a bustling lunch hour. Evening is back to the subway with the buses running overhead. And Night shows workers performing maintenance while others enjoy time off at a bar, only to start all over again the next day. Jammed with commuters both above and below street level, the series highlights the intermingling of strangers that animates urban life.- James Heald, Worcester, MA
- Ashcan School Prints and the American City, 1900–1940. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 18-December 26, 2021).
- {{cite web|title=The People Work: Evening|url=false|author=Benton Spruance|year=1937|access-date=14 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
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