Hold Up on Fourteenth Street
Date1949
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
Printer/Printmaker
Will Shuster
(American painter and printmaker, 1893–1969)
MediumEtching
Dimensionsplate: 6 13/16 × 5 7/8 in. (17.3 × 14.9 cm)
sheet: 13 1/4 × 9 3/4 in. (33.7 × 24.8 cm)
sheet: 13 1/4 × 9 3/4 in. (33.7 × 24.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1963
Object number1963-20.221
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThis etching represents a scene in a photographer's studio, with three figures massed on the false rear of a California Limited train, while another—seated on a wooden horse—brandishes a gun, committing the "hold up."
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