Gray and Brass
Artist: John Sloan (American, 1871–1951)
Original Dimensions: 22" x 27"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (1907) "In 1904 Sloan moved to New York, where he initially supported himself as a freelance illustrator. Enthusiastically embracing his new urban environment, he went on to produce paintings and prints of the city’s many attractions and mix of social classes with wit and candor. This work contrasts the self-satisfied attitudes of wealthy passengers in the flashy "gray and brass" motorcar with New York’s working people and unemployed in the background. As in all of his work, Sloan here has captured the vibrant culture of looking and being seen that characterized the early twentieth-century urban spectacle." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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