A Thirst for Art
Date1939
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumEtching
Dimensionsplate: 3 7/8 × 5 15/16 in. (9.8 × 15.1 cm)
sheet: 8 × 11 5/16 in. (20.3 × 28.7 cm)
sheet: 8 × 11 5/16 in. (20.3 × 28.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1963
Object number1963-20.216
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextSloan described this scene as "one of those exhibition opening cocktail parties. Enthusiasm resulting from the lifting of Prohibition prevails over interest in art." He later noted, "they don't see the pictures at all, knocking them crooked on the wall with their shoulders."
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