McSorley's Back Room, Second State

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© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publication.
McSorley's Back Room, Second State
© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publication.

McSorley's Back Room, Second State

Date1916
Artist (American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumEtching
Dimensionsplate: 5 1/8 × 7 in. (13 × 17.8 cm)
sheet: 9 7/16 × 12 7/16 in. (24 × 31.6 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Helen Farr Sloan, 2014
Object number2014-72
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPRINT
Label TextIn the second state, Sloan added the title at the bottom and shaded many of the elements in the background, making the figure of John McSorley stand out in the cluttered room.