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Accession #	23.60
Artist	John Sloan
Title	The Haymarket, Sixth Avenue
Date	1907
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	26 1/8 x 34 13/16 in. (66.3 x 88.5 cm) frame: 34 1/8 x 42 13/16 x 3 1/8 in. (86.7 x 108.7 x 7.9 cm)
Signed	Signed lower left: "John Sloan .07"
Credit Line	Gift of Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney
Location	Visible Storage: Case 23, Screen M (Paintings)

Curatorial Remarks: The 1908 exhibition in which John Sloan’s The Haymarket, Sixth Avenue was shown drew headlines in New York (see illustration). Exhibited with the work of his colleagues in an artist group called The Eight, The Haymarket was especially provocative because it showed lavishly dressed women entering a well-known dance hall unaccompanied by male companions. These women were independent and pleasure-seeking, defying society’s expectations. This type of realism in art shocked many viewers who were accustomed to idealizing and genteel subjects.