Dust Storm, Fifth Avenue
John Sloan
1906 · Oil on canvas · The American Wing
Living near New York’s famed Flatiron Building off Madison Square, John Sloan frequently found his subject matter in the neighborhood. On June 10, he noted in his diary: "In the afternoon, walking on Fifth Avenue, we were on the edge of a beautiful wind storm, the air full of dust and a sort of panicky terror in all the living things in sight." This painting captures the mayhem of that afternoon, in which the Flatiron Building itself—the only skyscraper in a low-rise neighborhood—created the wind tunnel effect depicted by Sloan.
- Artist
- John Sloan
- Date
- 1906
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Culture
- American
- Department
- The American Wing
- Credit line
- George A. Hearn Fund, 1921
