McSorley's Back Room
Date1916
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumEtching
Dimensionsplate: 5 × 6 15/16 in. (12.7 × 17.6 cm)
sheet: 9 1/4 × 13 3/8 in. (23.5 × 34 cm)
sheet: 9 1/4 × 13 3/8 in. (23.5 × 34 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1998
Object number1998-135
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextSloan never met old John McSorley, but his son told him that he always sat in the back room in the sun, so Sloan drew him there.