This is a drawing of a tenement building with children playing outside. The scene features several children gathered on the front stoop of a brick building in an urban setting. The architecture includes a prominent arched doorway with detailed stonework, flanked by windows with shutters. A narrow pathway leads towards the building, with cobbled streets in the foreground. There is a stroller or pushcart near the sidewalk, and various figures are visible in the windows. The drawing reflects the early 20th-century urban life often captured by artists who focused on American cityscapes and their…
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Street Scene (New York)

Jerome Myers (American, 1867 - 1940)

1922

Medium
lithograph
Classification
Print
Dimensions
image: 406 x 292 mm ; paper: 495 x 387 mm
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CG-W
Credit line
Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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