This is a drawing of an urban street scene featuring a three-story building with balconies and a street lamp. Various architectural details are depicted, such as windows, doors, awnings, and laundry hanging from the balconies. Two figures are shown standing near a doorway. The pencil work captures textures of bricks, wood, and fabric, conveying a sense of age and vibrancy. The composition includes a street lamp as the focal point, along with street-level details like barrels and crates near the building entrance.
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New York Street Scene

Jerome Myers (American, 1867 - 1940)

1911

Medium
black chalk on wove paper
Classification
Drawing
Dimensions
sheet: 25.4 × 21.27 cm (10 × 8 3/8 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CG-W
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Museum exchange through a gift of Rear Adm. E.H.C. Leutze, 1960)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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