Jerome Myers , Children Playing on The Slide, Ashcan School - Lower East Side, ca. 1905

Immigrant children from New York's Lower East Side are joyfully captured whizzing down on a slide. From the window of a tenement building, a lone adult with child witnesses the folic and fun. Myers spent a good deal of his time depicting the vibrant street life of New York's poor. Signed lower right.
We assigned the date of 1905 for this painting base on the similarity to his well know work. " The Tamborine, that was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of Art.
Provenance: Kraushaar Galleries, New York; Henry Bankoff, New York; M. Knoedler & Co., New York, with the label; Christie's New York, December 6, 1985, sale 6052, lot 242; private collection, New York.
Jerome Myers, 1867–1940
Oil on Canvas
22 - 24.5 inches
US$25,000 Plus shipping