Painting the Town

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Painting the Town ClTYSCAPES OF NEW YORK PAINTINGS FROM THE MUSEUM OF the City of New York Edited by Jan Seidler Ramirez Essays by Michele H. Bogart, Jan Seidler Ramirez, and William R.Taylor Entries by Barbara Ball Buff and Jan Seidler Ramirez

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¦¦^¦¦'í'.ií . Ű ÍLlli.i; • f, ' -í ; f;.' - r> f1 ? .>'[ ;n J h , fwj For more than two centuries, artists have captured NewYork's harbors, skylines, festivities, Street scenes, and buildings in paintings that shed brilliant light on aspects of the city's history.This beautiful book introduces nearly 160 of these úrban scene paintings. Drawn from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York, the works reflect the shifting moods, restless energy, and harsh contradictions of this consummate metropolis. The cityscapes-painted by such wellknown artists as John Sloan,Asher Durand, and Ben Shahn as well as by less familiar names-span the... Tovább

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Painting the Town ClTYSCAPES OF NEW YORK PAINTINGS FROM THE MUSEUM OF the City of New York Edited by Jan Seidler Ramirez Essays by Michele H. Bogart, Jan Seidler Ramirez, and William R.Taylor Entries by Barbara Ball Buff and Jan Seidler Ramirez

I I J!1, i J ? i -* j !<;l 3 ¦ Ife fel f. ')h' I ín 1 m Vi 11 i <? ú hl-; ¦ 9 Ff I I ;Í fl i r

¦¦^¦¦'í'.ií . Ű ÍLlli.i; • f, ' -í ; f;.' - r> f1 ? .>'[ ;n J h , fwj For more than two centuries, artists have captured NewYork's harbors, skylines, festivities, Street scenes, and buildings in paintings that shed brilliant light on aspects of the city's history.This beautiful book introduces nearly 160 of these úrban scene paintings. Drawn from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York, the works reflect the shifting moods, restless energy, and harsh contradictions of this consummate metropolis. The cityscapes-painted by such wellknown artists as John Sloan,Asher Durand, and Ben Shahn as well as by less familiar names-span the full stylistic rangé of American painting from the post-Revolutionary period to the present day. Early works include marine paintings, topographical views, genre paintings with New York City settings, and depictions of metropolitan manners.Twentieth-century Manhattan is documented in paintings informed by theAsh Can School vision, easel paintings and murai studies produced in New York City under the aegis of the W.P.A., and paintings dating from the I930s and I940s that distill the temper of a city gripped by the Depression.The most recent paintings Vissza