A snowstorm on Broadway in the Theater District

 
“Painter John Sloan, born in Philadelphia, moved to New York City in 1904. Throughout his life he depicted scenes of city residents doing everything from dreaming on rooftops to commuting on the elevated to hanging laundry to partying on Election night. But ‘The White Way,’ from 1927, is the first Sloan painting I’m aware of that shows the action and activity of Broadway’s Theater District, specifically at 50th Street. It belongs to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which states this about Sloan’s New York subjects and this work in particular. ...”

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