The Market Woman
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
Myers often depicted the streets, river piers, parks, and playgrounds of New York’s Lower East Side—a neighborhood then populated mainly by poor European immigrants. He especially enjoyed the exceptional energy and vitality of the open-air markets, writing that “the immigrants merge here with New York.”
Caption
Jerome Myers American, 1867–1940. The Market Woman, ca. 1912. Etching with colored inks on wove paper, Sheet: 10 13/16 x 4 7/8 in. (27.5 x 12.4 cm) Image: 7 15/16 x 4 7/8 in. (20.2 x 12.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Museum Collection, 25.132. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 25.132.jpg)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
The Market Woman
Date
ca. 1912
Geography
Place made: United States
Medium
Etching with colored inks on wove paper
Classification
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 13/16 x 4 7/8 in. (27.5 x 12.4 cm) Image: 7 15/16 x 4 7/8 in. (20.2 x 12.4 cm)
Signatures
LR recto
Credit Line
Brooklyn Museum Collection
Accession Number
25.132
Rights
© artist or artist's estate
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