Fifth Avenue 1909
Date1941
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumEtching
Dimensionsplate: 7 7/8 × 5 15/16 in. (20 × 15.1 cm)
sheet: 17 1/16 × 10 13/16 in. (43.3 × 27.5 cm)
sheet: 17 1/16 × 10 13/16 in. (43.3 × 27.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1963
Object number1963-20.220
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextSloan copied this print from the photograph of his 1909 painting in Gist of Art, and he considered it a failure because he tried to mimic the tones of the painting. The etching won the $500 etching prize at the Artists for Victory exhibition.