Wet Night on the Bowery
Date1911
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions26 1/2 × 21 5/8 in. (67.3 × 54.9 cm)
frame: 33 × 28 in. (83.8 × 71.1 cm)
frame: 33 × 28 in. (83.8 × 71.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of the John Sloan Memorial Foundation, 1997
Object number1997-42
On View
On viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextOnce a respectable theater district, by 1911, the Bowery was home to seedier entertainments marketed to working-class men and visiting sailors.
