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Cross Streets of New York

Everett Shinn, 1899

75 cm × 55 cm

About the size of a bathroom mirror. You would need 2 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

Height: 55 cm
Width: 75 cm
Medium: pastel, watercolor, charcoal, and gouache on paperboard
Kind: Drawing
Where the measurement comes from: Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
Credit: Corcoran Collection (Gift of Margaret M. Hitchcock through a Museum Exchange, 1975)

Five questions, answered from its own record. What is AGAI?

How big is it?: 75 cm × 55 cm. About the size of a bathroom mirror. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?: Made 1899. It is in the public domain, and National Gallery of Art publishes it for open use.
Whose is it?: Everyone’s to see. It is held by National Gallery of Art: Corcoran Collection (Gift of Margaret M. Hitchcock through a Museum Exchange, 1975).
How was it made?: Pastel, watercolor, charcoal, and gouache on paperboard.
Who speaks for it?: Its record at National Gallery of Art. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.

This work is in the reference only. The gallery hangs a selection of the collection at real size.

One email. The smallest thing in the collection, the largest, and two that hang well together.

Scored on colour, shape, era and scale, the same way the gallery hangs them.