McSorley's Back Room

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

McSorley's Back Room

Date1916
Artist (American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumEtching
Dimensionsplate: 5 3/16 × 6 15/16 in. (13.2 × 17.6 cm)
sheet: 9 11/16 × 12 7/16 in. (24.6 × 31.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1963
Object number1963-20.103
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPRINT
Label TextSloan never met old John McSorley, but his son told him that he always sat in the back room in the sun, so Sloan drew him there.