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The Way They Live, Thomas Anshutz, 1879
Thomas Pollock Anshutz, portraitThomas Pollock AnshutzAmerican, 1851–1912

The Way They Live

1879 · Painting

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Yes, on view now

Where is “The Way They Live” now? The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gallery 762, New York. Yes, on view now. Checked September 29, 2026.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, United States

Room762

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About the painting

The Way They Live is a late 19th-century painting by American artist Thomas Anshutz. Done in oil on canvas, the painting is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Accession number
40.40

What it shows

HouseBoysGirlsWomanWorking

In the catalog

PaintingsOilAmerican paintingRealismImpressionism19th centuryAmerican

Sources

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