Almost two dozen men, women, and children stand in a street market in this horizontal painting. The people all appear to have pale skin, though a few of the women’s faces are tinged with green. The men are bearded and wear coats and the women long skirts or dresses in shades of rust brown, sage green, slate blue, and brick red. Baskets holding green goods along the foreground closest to us are loosely painted so details are indistinct. A screen of two- and three-story buildings on the far side of a town square are painted with golden yellow and honey orange. The outlines of skyscrapers…
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Life on the East Side

painter Jerome Myers (American, 1867 - 1940)

1931

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 76.2 × 101.6 cm (30 × 40 in.) ; framed: 92.39 × 118.75 × 8.26 cm (36 3/8 × 46 3/4 × 3 1/4 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund, 1932)
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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