Fun, One Cent

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Fun, One Cent

Series: New York City Life

United States, 1905
Prints; etchings
Etching on Arches paper
Sheet: 9 3/8 × 11 3/8 in. (23.81 × 28.89 cm) Image: 4 3/4 × 6 5/8 in. (12.07 × 16.83 cm)
Mr. and Mrs. William Preston Harrison Collection (48.32.39)
Prints and Drawings
Not currently on public view

Label

New York, New York: The City as Muse in American Art September 19, 2003-February 18, 2004 ...
New York, New York: The City as Muse in American Art September 19, 2003-February 18, 2004 “The Nickelodeon, with its hand-cranked moving photographs, was one of the attractions preceding the moving picture theaters. The one in which I garnered this bouquet of laughing girls was for many years on 14th Street near Third Avenue.” Sloan remembered this scene in 1945 but cleverly did not reveal what was making the girls laugh. A close look at the signs on the nickelodeons reveals the sorts of spirited details that enliven Sloan’s etchings.
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