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A North River Recreation Pier

Jerome Myers American
1905
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 774
Long known as "At the Ferry Slip," this picture was first exhibited as "A North River Recreation Pier" along with several other paintings of the subject at Myers' exhibition held at Macbeth Galleries, New York in 1908. The scene is set on a summer's night in New York where workers and families have come to the pier to seek relief from the heat and watch the passing ferries. The composition is highly decorative, reminiscent in its overall flatness and broad generalizations of a tapestry.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: A North River Recreation Pier
  • Artist: Jerome Myers (American, Petersburg, Virginia 1867–1940 New York)
  • Date: 1905
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 25 3/16 x 30 1/16 in. (64 x 76.4 cm)
  • Credit Line: George A. Hearn Fund, 1966
  • Object Number: 66.47
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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