Gallery Scene
Datec. 1938
Artist
Helen Farr Sloan
(American painter, 1911–2005)
MediumOil on board
Dimensions22 × 24 in. (55.9 × 61 cm)
frame: 28 × 30 in. (71.1 × 76.2 cm)
frame: 28 × 30 in. (71.1 × 76.2 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Helen Farr Sloan, 2014
Object number2014-302a
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextThis painting of a crowded opening party depicts a gallery in the Whitney Museum of American Art, then on Eighth Street in New York. The large painting in the back of the room is William Glackens' Family Group, 1910–11, which was shown at the Whitney in 1937 and 1938.