Hold Up on Fourteenth Street
Date1949
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumEtching
Dimensionsplate: 6 7/8 × 5 7/8 in. (17.5 × 14.9 cm)
sheet: 11 1/4 × 8 7/8 in. (28.6 × 22.5 cm)
sheet: 11 1/4 × 8 7/8 in. (28.6 × 22.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1998
Object number1998-36
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."