  About the Artwork
  
  
  This celebration of male companionship attests to Sloan’s conviction that the real artist finds beauty in common things. Sloan often stopped at this New York neighborhood saloon, fascinated by the range of humanity he found there. McSorley’s Old Ale House retains this mood and character even today, with one notable change; in 1970, protests by feminists put an end to what had for more than one hundred years been an exclusively male domain.
  
  
  Title
  McSorley&#039;s Bar
  
  
  Artwork Date
  1912
  
  Artist
  John Sloan
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  1871-1951
  
  
  
  
  Nationality
  
  
  
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  Some definitions include:
  Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation.
  
  
  
  American
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Oil on canvas
  
  
  Dimensions
  Unframed: 26 × 32 inches (66 × 81.3 cm)
  Framed: 32 7/8 × 39 1/4 × 3 inches (83.5 × 99.7 × 7.6 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Paintings
  
  
  Department
  American Art before 1950
  
  
  Credit
  Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  24.2
  
  
  Copyright
  According to a deed of gift signed by John Sloan and witnessed by Anna Sloan, April 7, 1924, all rights including copyright were assigned to The Detroit  Museum of Arts Founders Society of the city of Detroit Michigan, United States of America
