Seeing New York
Date1917
Artist
John Sloan
(American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumEtching
Dimensionsplate: 2 1/4 × 3 5/8 in. (5.7 × 9.2 cm)
sheet: 8 7/16 × 10 15/16 in. (21.4 × 27.8 cm)
sheet: 8 7/16 × 10 15/16 in. (21.4 × 27.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1998
Object number1998-128
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextSloan first noted a truck full of geese traveling through the city in his diary in 1909, but it wasn't until late in 1917 that he made this print. The title links the birds—craning their heads to look around—to tour busses full of sightseers from out of town.
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