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Watercolor
Trinity Church and World Trade Center, New York
Ralph Avery, 1906 - 1976
Avery, Ralph
United States
1906 - 1976
Male
13 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. (34.3 x 26.7 cm)
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Watercolor
circa 1975
1970
1980
1900-2000, 20th century, by Rochester artists, churches, cityscapes, skyscrapers, watercolors, World Trade Center
Watercolor
Rochester artist Ralph Avery juxtaposed the World Trade Center with Trinity Church in a colorful scene painted shortly after the towers were completed in 1973. In reality, the church, a symbol of old New York (it was founded in 1696), is dwarfed by neighboring skyscrapers, but from Avery’s vantage point, the cross-topped steeple competes with the surrounding buildings for the highest point in the scene. Perhaps Avery was inserting his own point of view about the competing roles of God and Mammon in that Wall Street neighborhood. As an illustrator for magazines that were bastions of middle-class, conservative values – Saturday Evening Post and Reader’s Digest — Avery may have been expressing the publisher’s values as well.
[Label text, 2003]
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Painting
Boomtown
Thomas Hart Benton, 1889 - 1975
Benton, Thomas Hart
United States
1889 - 1975
Male
46 1/8 x 54 1/4 in. (117.2 x 137.8 cm)
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Egg yolk and oil
Egg yolk and oil
1928
1928
1928
1900-2000, 20th century, American Scene/Regionalism, cityscapes, Encyclopedia Britannica Collection, paintings
Painting
Early in his career, Thomas Hart Benton was involved in the American abstract movement, Synchromism. In the 1920s, Benton embarked on a style that incorporated Synchromist rhythmic line and expressive color with representational imagery of rural America. With this major shift in style, Benton established the Regionalist movement. Many consider Boomtown to be the artist’s first Regionalist masterpiece.
[Gallery label text, 2007]
Boomtown is one of the masterpieces of the Gallery's collection because of its impressive and unique depiction of an American landscape. When Thomas Hart Benton sketched this panoramic scene from a second floor window, the smoky fire on the horizon signified progress, not pollution. Borger, Texas was a boomtown that sprang to life in 1926 after a refinery company hit a gusher that produced 5000 gallons of oil a day.
Benton is one of the three major American Regionalists (the other two are Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry), so called because most of their subjects were about life in the rural heartland of America.
While Benton was not a fan of contemporary modernist painting, and in fact disdained artists who painted in the abstract style, he couldn't help but be influenced by the curvy and streamlined aesthetic of his times and the way in which artists were reinterpreting three-dimensional space. Consider the way in which the people, buildings and landscape are layered from top to bottom on the canvas, rather than being laid out carefully from front to back in the manner of traditional artistic renderings.
[Gallery label text, 2006]
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Painting
Main Street Bridge, Rochester
Colin Campbell Cooper, (Philadelphia, PA, 1856 - 1937, Santa Barbara, CA)
Cooper, Colin Campbell
United States
1856 - 1937
Male
26 1/4 x 36 in. (66.7 x 91.4 cm)
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Oil
Oil
1908
1908
1908
1900-2000, 20th century, bridges, by Rochester artists, cityscapes, paintings, rivers, views of Rochester & western New York
Painting
Colin Campbell Cooper wrote an essay in 1911 where he recommended his wife’s home town of Rochester as a subject for artists: “Rochester is filled with subjects which need no other idealization to make beautiful than an eye receptive to the glory of light and color and the ability to register these things on canvas.” Here, the artist’s receptive eye captured from a northeast angle downtown’s Main Street Bridge in contrasting colors of warm brick and the cool water. The shops and offices on the Main Street Bridge over the Genesee River illustrate Rochester’s commercial boom in this era, where every inch of space was needed to support the businesses of the central city.
[Gallery label text, 2021]
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Painting
Landscape with Garage Lights
Garage Lights
Stuart Davis, (Philadelphia, PA, 1892 – 1964, New York, NY)
Davis, Stuart
United States
1892 - 1964
Male
32 x 41 7/8 in. (81.3 x 106.4 cm)
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1931-1932
1931
1932
1900-2000, 20th century, Abstract, cityscapes, Encyclopedia Britannica Collection, Modernism, paintings
Painting
Stuart Davis began as a student of the Urban Realist style, but upon seeing the many European modernist works on display at the New York Armory Show of 1913, the artist found his passion for abstraction. The influence of the broken-up and flattened surfaces of Cubism and the syncopated rhythms of American jazz contributed to Davis’ personal style.
[Gallery label text, 2007]
Gloucester, one of Massachusetts's oldest seaports, was a summer home for painter Stuart Davis from the time he was a young man of twenty-two. This view of the harbor clearly captivated him by the early 1930s, and preliminary studies of this painting reveal how carefully he considered the scene and translated it into paint, all the while deliberately conveying a sense of simplicity and speed in its execution.
After a Parisian stay in the late 1920s, Davis returned to the United States with a new way of seeing things. The goal for him was to paint an expressive, abstracted version of the world around him, rather than a photographic simulacrum. As modernism challenged the nature of reality and how it is perceived, Davis reminds us here that it is possible to see two sides of a building at once, and that often it really looks like only half of a ship is in the water even though our brains convince us that the other half is hidden behind the fish warehouse. Flatness and simplification of forms were characteristics that distinguished work of influential European painters like Picasso and Matisse, whose work Davis would have encountered during his stay in France.
[Gallery label text, 2006]
yes, lower righton top stretcher memberon vertical cross member, inscription is written vertically down the cross member and the "I" in "Davis" is written horizontally
1951.3
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Watercolor
Street Scene, Paris
Along the Quai
Rufus J. Dryer, (Rochester, NY, 1880 – 1937, Marcy, NY)
Dryer, Rufus J.
United States
1880 - 1937
Male
10 x 12 1/2 in. (25.4 x 31.8 cm)
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Watercolor
Watercolor
1925
1925
1925
1900-2000, 20th century, cityscapes, Paris, France, watercolors
Watercolor
lower right
1964.23
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Painting
Summer Street Scene in Harlem
Jacob Lawrence, 1917 - 2000
Lawrence, Jacob
United States
1917 - 2000
Male
20 1/16 x 24 1/8 in. (51 x 61.2 cm)
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Tempera
Tempera
1948
1948
1948
1900-2000, 20th century, cityscapes, Images of Black People, New York city, paintings, Social Realism
Painting
Jacob Lawrence put his own stylistic innovations on the flattened surfaces, distorted shapes, and bold colors of modernism. Here his vibrant palette and energetic composition express the joy and vitality of a summer in Harlem. Children play with their soap box and approach a shaved ice vendor; adults gather in conversation. Lawrence moved to Harlem with his family at the age of twelve, and he was greatly influenced by the creative community flourishing there.
Lawrence chronicled the lives, accomplishments, and challenges experienced by Black communities in the United States. His best-known series, The Migration of the Negro (1941), depicted the mass movement of Black people who relocated from the American South to the North, Midwest, and West in search of economic and social mobility. Lawrence’s parents themselves moved to the North in this exodus known as the Great Migration, which took place from the 1910s through the 1970s.
[Gallery label text, 2024]
lower rightback of panel, Undated; from 1974-75 exhibitionback of panel, partly covered by another labelback of panelback of panelback of panelback of panelback of panelback of panel, orange tag with black printing
Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence
1991.5
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Memorial Art Gallery
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Print
Cavtat
Clare Leighton, (London, England, 1898 - 1989, Woodbury, CT)
Leighton, Clare
United States
1898 - 1989
Female
10 7/16 x 15 3/16 in. (26.5 x 38.5 cm)
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1927
1927
1927
1900-2000, 20th century, cityscapes, landscapes, mountains, seascapes, wood engravings
Print
One of the picturesque views seen by Clare Leighton on her trip through Croatia in the 1920s was this panorama of the peninsula of Cavtat, on the Adriatic Sea.
[Gallery label text]
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David Leighton
1929.84
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Painting
Morning on the River
Jonas Lie, 1880 - 1940
Lie, Jonas
United States
1880 - 1940
Male
50 x 60 in. (127 x 152.4 cm)
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Oil
ca. 1911-1912
1911
1912
1900-2000, 20th century, boats, bridges, Brooklyn, NY, cityscapes, paintings, rivers
Painting
Jonas Lie captures the new American landscape of industry and technology by painting the gritty underside of the Brooklyn Bridge.
[Gallery label text, 2007]
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1913.6
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Print
Brooklyn Bridge
Louis Lozowick, 1892 - 1973
Lozowick, Louis
United States
1892 - 1973
Male
15 7/8 x 11 3/8 in. (40.3 x 28.9 cm)
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1930
1930
1930
1900-2000, 20th century, bridges, Brooklyn, NY, cityscapes, lithographs
Print
Lozowick emphasized the Brooklyn Bridge’s verticality by his dramatic treatment of the cable lines. Also, in the juxtaposition of the human forms with the bridge’s monumental tower, the impact of its sheer mass is heightened.
The Brooklyn Bridge opened on May 24, 1883, after thirteen tumultuous years of work to complete the plan originated by John Roebling. It fulfilled the prediction that he offered in his original proposal:
"The contemplated work, when constructed in accordance with my design, will not only be the greatest bridge in existence, but it will be the great engineering work of the Continent and of the age. Its most conspicuous feature - the great towers - will serve as landmarks to the adjoining cities, and they will be entitled to be ranked as national monuments. As a great work of art, and a successful specimen of advanced bridge engineering, the structure will forever testify to the energy, enterprise, and wealth of that community which shall secure its erection."
[Label text, 2003]
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Print
City on a Rock—Cohoes
Louis Lozowick, 1892 - 1973
Lozowick, Louis
United States
1892 - 1973
Male
11 1/2 x 15 15/16 in. (29.2 x 40.5 cm)
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1931
1931
1900-2000, 20th century, cityscapes, Cohoes, NY, lithographs
Print
lower rightlower right, in the stone
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Painting
Waterloo Bridge, Veiled Sun
Claude Monet, (Paris, 1840 – 1926, Giverny, France)
Monet, Claude
France
1840 - 1926
Male
25 1/2 x 39 1/4 in. (64.8 x 99.7 cm)
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1903
1903
1903
1900-2000, 20th century, bridges, cityscapes, Impressionism, London, England, paintings
Painting
Monet loved London for its fog. During his 1901 visit to the city, he attempted to capture the evanescent effects of its misty climate in a series of views of Waterloo Bridge under varying conditions. Each time the light and weather shifted, he began a new canvas or returned to the one that recorded that particular atmosphere. Monet did not complete the paintings in London. He perfected them in his studio in France over the next three years. Thus, this painting records not only the artist's immediate response to the scene, but also his memory of it.
[Gallery label text, 1999]
lower rightback of frameback of framestretcher, Presumably Durand-Ruel number?stretcher, Torn away at right edgestretcherstretcherstretcherback of canvas
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Painting
Sunday Morning
Jerome Myers, 1867 - 1940
Myers, Jerome
United States
1867 - 1940
Male
37 1/2 x 44 1/2 in. (95.3 x 113 cm)
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Oil
Oil
1907
1907
1907
1900-2000, 20th century, Ashcan School and friends, children, cityscapes, men, paintings, women
Painting
Jerome Myers said of his art, “I went to the gutter for my subject, but they were poetic gutters.”
[Gallery label text, 2007]
Jerome Myers was called "the gentle poet of the slums" for his compassionate images of immigrant life in New York's Lower East Side. Myers recorded the unglamorous, yet commonplace aspects of city life, as did fellow painters John Sloan and Robert Henri, members of The Eight or the Ashcan School. However, his vision of the city's poor never evoked a sense of wretchedness: "Why catch humanity by the shirt-tail," he said, "when I could see more pleasant things?"
Though tame to us today, paintings like Sunday Morning were considered progressive, even "revolutionary" when they were painted, because of their subject matter. However, when it came to exhibiting with The Eight, Robert Henri didn't think that Myers's work was forceful enough. As a founder of the innovative American Association of Painters and Sculptors in 1911, Myers helped to pave the way for the watershed 1913 Armory Show in New York City, the exhibition that introduced European modernism to an enthusiastic but occasionally bewildered public.
[Gallery label text, 2006]
lower left
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Print
Battery Park
Society of Iconophile Series #1
Joseph Pennell, 1860 - 1926
Pennell, Joseph
United States
1860 - 1926
Male
11 1/4 x 7 15/16 in. (28.6 x 20.2 cm)
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sheet
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1904
1904
1904
1900-2000, 20th century, cityscapes, lithographs, New York city
Print
No. 1 in a series of 12 views of New York, published by The Society of Iconophiles, New York, 1905.
lower left, below imagelower left, in margin, Image of a windmill with words on all four sides (see next page) within a shield.
Rising sun above the shield.illegible, verso
1947.75.1
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Print
Broadway Towers
Joseph Pennell, 1860 - 1926
Pennell, Joseph
United States
1860 - 1926
Male
13 13/16 x 8 7/16 in. (35.1 x 21.4 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1904
1904
1904
1900-2000, 20th century, cityscapes, lithographs, New York city
Print
Part of a series of 12 views of New York, published by The Society of Iconophiles, New York, 1905.
1947.75.3
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Print
Broadway, Above Twenty-Third Street
Joseph Pennell, 1860 - 1926
Pennell, Joseph
United States
1860 - 1926
Male
11 x 8 1/16 in. (27.9 x 20.5 cm)
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sheet
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1904
1904
1904
1900-2000, 20th century, cityscapes, lithographs, New York city
Print
Part of a series of 12 views of New York, published by The Society of Iconophiles, New York, 1905.
1947.75.11
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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Print
Broadway, from Bowling Green
Joseph Pennell, 1860 - 1926
Pennell, Joseph
United States
1860 - 1926
Male
12 3/8 x 8 5/8 in. (31.4 x 21.9 cm)
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1904
1904
1904
1900-2000, 20th century, cityscapes, lithographs, New York city
Print
Part of a series of 12 views of New York, published by The Society of Iconophiles, New York, 1905.
1947.75.2
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
47.75.2DI1
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7/3/2002
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Print
Building the Building
Joseph Pennell, 1860 - 1926
Pennell, Joseph
United States
1860 - 1926
Male
13 11/16 x 9 in. (34.8 x 22.9 cm)
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sheet
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1904
1904
1904
1900-2000, 20th century, architecture in art, cityscapes, lithographs, prints
Print
Part of a series of 12 views of New York, published by The Society of Iconophiles, New York, 1905.
1947.75.8
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
47.75.8DI1
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7/3/2002
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Print
Flatiron Building
Joseph Pennell, 1860 - 1926
Pennell, Joseph
United States
1860 - 1926
Male
13 x 8 1/4 in. (33 x 21 cm)
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sheet
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1904
1904
1904
1900-2000, 20th century, cityscapes, lithographs, New York city
Print
Part of a series of 12 views of New York, published by The Society of Iconophiles, New York, 1905.
1947.75.9
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Print
Nassau Street
Joseph Pennell, 1860 - 1926
Pennell, Joseph
United States
1860 - 1926
Male
12 15/16 x 8 1/2 in. (32.9 x 21.6 cm)
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Printer's ink
1904
1904
1904
1900-2000, 20th century, cityscapes, lithographs, New York city
Print
Part of a series of 12 views of New York, published by The Society of Iconophiles, New York, 1905.
1947.75.5
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
47.75.5DI1
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Print
Pine Street
Joseph Pennell, 1860 - 1926
Pennell, Joseph
United States
1860 - 1926
Male
14 15/16 x 9 1/2 in. (37.9 x 24.1 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1904
1904
1904
1900-2000, 20th century, cityscapes, lithographs, New York city
Print
Part of a series of 12 views of New York, published by The Society of Iconophiles, New York, 1905.
1947.75.6
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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Print
The Great Stack, Sheffield
Joseph Pennell, 1860 - 1926
Pennell, Joseph
United States
1860 - 1926
Male
12 3/4 x 9 5/8 in. (32.4 x 24.4 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1909
1909
1909
1900-2000, 20th century, cityscapes, drypoint, etchings, factories
Print
lower center, below imagelower center, in the image
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Print
The Stock Exchange
Joseph Pennell, 1860 - 1926
Pennell, Joseph
United States
1860 - 1926
Male
11 15/16 x 7 1/2 in. (30.3 x 19.1 cm)
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1904
1904
1904
1900-2000, 20th century, cityscapes, lithographs, New York city
Print
Part of a series of 12 views of New York, published by The Society of Iconophiles, New York, 1905.
1947.75.4
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
47.75.4DI1
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7/3/2002
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Print
The Times Building
Joseph Pennell, 1860 - 1926
Pennell, Joseph
United States
1860 - 1926
Male
9 x 6 in. (22.9 x 15.2 cm)
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1904
1904
1904
1900-2000, 20th century, cityscapes, lithographs, New York city
Print
Part of a series of 12 views of New York, published by The Society of Iconophiles, New York, 1905.
1947.75.12
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Memorial Art Gallery
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Print
Union Square
Joseph Pennell, 1860 - 1926
Pennell, Joseph
United States
1860 - 1926
Male
12 1/8 x 8 in. (30.8 x 20.3 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1904
1904
1904
1900-2000, 20th century, cityscapes, lithographs, New York city
Print
Part of a series of 12 views of New York, published by The Society of Iconophiles, New York, 1905.
1947.75.10
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Print
William Street
Joseph Pennell, 1860 - 1926
Pennell, Joseph
United States
1860 - 1926
Male
10 3/4 x 7 1/2 in. (27.3 x 19.1 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1904
1904
1904
1900-2000, 20th century, cityscapes, lithographs, New York city
Print
Part of a series of 12 views of New York, published by The Society of Iconophiles, New York, 1905.
1947.75.7
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
47.75.7DI1
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7/3/2002
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Painting
Memorial Bridge
Carl W. Peters, 1897 - 1980
Peters, Carl W.
United States
1897 - 1980
Male
36 x 40 in. (91.4 x 101.6 cm)
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without frame
Oil
Oil
1930
1930
1930
1900-2000, 20th century, American art, bridges, by Rochester artists, cityscapes, jobs & work, paintings, views of Rochester & western New York
Painting
One of Rochester's most picturesque river crossings is the Veterans' Memorial Bridge (Ridge Road), completed in 1931. In this painting, Carl Peters records the complex engineering systems that were used to build the bridge's series of seven granite-faced concrete arches. Most likely, his vantage point was the steep west bank of the Genesee River, whose green waters flow far below; work has been completed on both sides of the river but the bridge is still lacking its large central span.
On the bridge is a dedicatory plaque donated by World War I Gold Star Mothers - women who lost sons in World War I. At the dedication, the president of the group said:
Great bridges across flowing waters are
indicative of the continual labors of life.
In the very presence of continual change,
they seem to connect the past with the
present, even as they connect the East
with the West, the North with the South...
[Gallery label text, 2009]
lower left
Nancy Miller Batty
1981.56
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Painting
Lower Falls
W. Elmer Schofield, (Philadelphia, PA, 1867 - 1944, Cornwall, England)
Schofield, W. Elmer
United States
1867 - 1944
Male
25 1/2 x 29 1/2 in. (64.8 x 74.9 cm)
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frame
Oil
Oil
1915
1915
1915
1900-2000, 20th century, cityscapes, paintings, rivers, views of Rochester & western New York, waterfalls
Painting
When Director George Herdle invited artists to exhibit their work at the Memorial Art Gallery, he often included an invitation for them to visit Rochester, give a talk, and meet potential patrons. Such was the case with Walter Elmer Schofield's 1915 exhibition. In March, he came to Rochester, spent time braving cold weather in various locales and painted at least two canvases. As he stood by his easel on the Driving Park Bridge overlooking the Lower Falls of the Genesee River, a news photographer happened upon him and took his picture for the March 3, 1915, newspaper. The headline? "Artist Braves March Weather to Paint Lower River".
[Gallery label text, 2007]
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Drawing
Ballet Mechanique
Charles Sheeler, 1883 - 1965
Sheeler, Charles
United States
1883 - 1965
Male
10 1/2 x 10 1/4 in. (26.7 x 26 cm)
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image
Conte crayon
Conte crayon
1931
1931
1931
1900-2000, 20th century, cityscapes, drawing, factories, Precisionism
Drawing
In 1927, Charles Sheeler was commissioned to photograph Henry Ford’s River Rouge car factory outside Detroit to advertise the company’s new Model A car. Ford’s innovations in the assembly line were celebrated for their efficiency, productivity, and ability to produce low-cost consumer goods. Yet the dark underside to this progress was unbearable, dehumanizing work conditions.
<em>Ballet Mechanique</em>, based on a photo from Sheeler’s Ford factory series, is a tightly-cropped scene of an industrial system of pipes and metal. By isolating the sleek machinery from actual labor, Sheeler elevates the loud, hot, dangerous factory environment to a cool, sleek, abstract vision of modernity.
Sheeler’s style, Precisionism, was a celebration of the technological sublime with its crisp, pure form and industrial themes. Of American artists in the early years of the 1900s, Charles Sheeler made one of the most dramatic breaks from the traditional assumption that beauty could be found in nature alone.
[label text for <em>Modern Icon: The Machine As Subject in American Art</em> exhibition, February 3 – March 6, 2012]
lower right, in image
1974.96
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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Watercolor
Totems in Steel
Charles Sheeler, 1883 - 1965
Sheeler, Charles
United States
1883 - 1965
Male
3 11/16 x 5 1/8 in. (9.4 x 13 cm)
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Gouache
Gouache
1935
1935
1935
1900-2000, 20th century, architecture in art, cityscapes, Precisionism, watercolors
Watercolor
This image of a New York City construction site is based on a film still from Charles Sheeler’s 1920 film collaboration with photographer Paul Strand, <em>Manhatta</em>. In the ten-minute film, the artists track the dynamism of Manhattan through the course of a day, focusing on the unique pulse and geometry of the city’s machinery, vehicles, and architecture. <em>Manhatta</em> provided Sheeler with numerous images from which he later painted.
The title of this painting, <em>Totems in Steel</em>, frames modern engineering, industry, and architecture in quasi-religious terms. Sheeler wrote, “In a period such as ours when only a comparatively few individuals seem to be given to religion, some form other than the Gothic cathedral must be found. Industry concerns the greatest numbers—it may be true, as has been said, that our factories are our substitute for religious expression.”
[label text for <em>Modern Icon: The Machine As Subject in American Art</em> exhibition, February 3 – March 6, 2012]
lower right, below imagelower right, in image
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Painting
Sullivan Street
Everett Shinn, 1876 - 1953
Shinn, Everett
United States
1876 - 1953
Male
8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
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approximate installation dimensions
frame
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Oil
Oil
1900-1905
1900
1905
1900-2000, 20th century, Ashcan School and friends, cityscapes, paintings, winter
Painting
In a city of many tough neighborhoods, New York’s Sullivan Street was one of the toughest. Shinn’s depiction of the isolated figure in the foreground evokes the condition of modern man in an urban environment—a recurring theme in the art of the Urban Realists.
[Gallery label text, 2007]
In 1897, encouraged by his mentor Robert Henri, Shinn moved from Philadelphia to New York City. Like Luks and Glackens, he was an artist-reporter as well as a painter. He exhibited with The Eight in 1908 at Macbeth Gallery. Sullivan Street was owned by the artist until 1945, when the Memorial Art Gallery purchased the canvas directly from him.
With just a few strokes of his brush, Everett Shinn has recreated an overcast winter street scene filled with mood and mystery. Sullivan Street is in Greenwich Village, around the corner from Shinn's studio on Waverly Place and near Washington Square Park, whose leafless trees can be seen beyond the buildings on the right.
[Gallery label text, 2003]
lower left
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Watercolor
City Hall, Canandaigua, N.Y.
John C. Wenrich, 1894 - 1970
Wenrich, John C.
United States
1894 - 1970
Male
18 3/4 x 15 in. (47.6 x 38.1 cm)
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Watercolor
Watercolor
ca. 1925
1920
1930
1900-2000, 20th century, by Rochester artists, cityscapes, views of Rochester & western New York, watercolors
Watercolor
lower right
John and Jeanne Wenrich
1977.152.370
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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6/8/2010
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Print
Night in the Park
Edward Hopper, 1882 - 1967
Hopper, Edward
United States
1882 - 1967
Male
12 3/8 x 16 1/4 in. (31.5 x 41.3 cm)
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sheet
sheet
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image
image
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1921
1921
1921
1900-2000, 20th century, American Scene/Regionalism, cityscapes, etchings, night
Print
In 1921, when this print was created, Edward Hopper was a relatively unknown artist who had sold a few paintings but had not begun to receive the acclaim that would be his within a few years. By 1931, when it was exhibited at MAG and acquired with funds donated by a relative of the Watson family, Hopper had become HOPPER; the Museum of Modern Art had purchased one of his paintings the year before. While MAG does not own any of his canvases, we are fortunate to own this print and one other from Hopper’s decade of printmaking, 1915–1924.
The cinematic quality of Hopper’s paintings is evident even in his etchings. A shadowy figure placed at the far end of a line of benches could easily be a character from a Hollywood “film noir.”
[Label text from It Came From the Vault exhibition, 2013]
lower right
1931.26
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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9/6/2012
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Print
Street in Blois, France
John Taylor Arms, 1887 - 1953
Arms, John Taylor
United States
1887 - 1953
Male
9 13/16 x 6 1/2 in. (25 x 16.5 cm)
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sheet
sheet
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plate
image
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1927
1927
1927
1900-2000, 20th century, cityscapes, etchings
Print
lower left, in image
1933.13
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
33.13SL1
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Print
Lafayette Street
Childe Hassam, 1859 - 1935
Hassam, Childe
United States
1859 - 1935
Male
16 1/16 x 11 11/16 in. (40.8 x 29.7 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1918
1918
1918
1900-2000, 20th century, cityscapes, lithographs
Print
lower right, in the stone, on stone, pencil, 4.25" from right edge and 1.8125" from lower edgelower left
1940.20
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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Print
Newport Harbor
Childe Hassam, 1859 - 1935
Hassam, Childe
United States
1859 - 1935
Male
6 1/4 x 6 7/8 in. (15.9 x 17.5 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1916
1916
1916
1900-2000, 20th century, boats, cityscapes, etchings
Print
upper rightlower right, in margin
1940.25
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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Print
New York Sky Line, Dark Buildings
Childe Hassam, 1859 - 1935
Hassam, Childe
United States
1859 - 1935
Male
13 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. (34.9 x 19.7 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1913
1913
1913
1900-2000, 20th century, cityscapes, lithographs, New York city
Print
Childe Hassam drew this 1913 profile of the New York City skyline the year construction on the Woolworth Building was completed. At 57 stories, it was the tallest building in the world until the Chrysler Building was completed in 1930. Perhaps it was excitement with the new engineering and construction technologies that led Hassam to exert artistic license in his depiction of the building’s silhouette, thereby dramatizing its height.
[label text for <em>Modern Icon: The Machine As Subject in American Art</em> exhibition, February 3 – March 6, 2012]
lower leftlower right
1940.27
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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40.27DI#2
digital image
11/18/2011
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Print
New York Sky Line, Light Buildings
Childe Hassam, 1859 - 1935
Hassam, Childe
United States
1859 - 1935
Male
13 5/16 x 8 in. (33.9 x 20.3 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1918
1918
1918
1900-2000, 20th century, cityscapes, lithographs, New York city
Print
lower leftlower right
1940.28
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
40.28SL1
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Print
Mid Manhattan Canyon
Hugh Botts, 1903 - 1964
Botts, Hugh
United States
1903 - 1964
Male
12 15/16 x 17 7/8 in. (32.9 x 45.4 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1938
1938
1938
1900-2000, 20th century, aquatints, cityscapes, etchings, New York city
Print
The New York skyline is a backdrop for the human drama that Botts saw all around him in New York City.
[Label text, 2003]
center left, in imagelower left, below imagelower center, below imagelower right, below image
1983.134.46
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
83.134.46DI1
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83.134.46DI#2
digital image
3/19/2009
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Media/images/83.134.46_A1.jpg
Print
East Side, Night
Harold Faye, 1910 - 1980
Faye, Harold
United States
1910 - 1980
Male
11 3/8 x 15 7/8 in. (28.9 x 40.3 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
ca. 1935-1939
1935
1939
1900-2000, 20th century, cityscapes, lithographs, New York city
Print
During the many hours that Harold Faye spent exploring New York City and recording its dens and denizens, he created work that demonstrated ‘enthusiasm of place and period,’ in the words of one art historian. In East Side, Night, he emphasized the city’s hard metallic elements – the fire escape, the sturdy supports for the El, railings, cars, barrels – but tempered them with the softness of the lithographic crayon.
Off and on during the Depression, Harold Faye found employment with the Graphic Division of the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration. This government agency was set up as part of the New Deal to create jobs. Typically, artists submitted drawings to supervisors who would either approve them, in which case the artists would go ahead and print multiple copies, or the work would be disapproved and shelved or discarded. Nearly 4,000 artists were given work thanks to this program, including Jacob Lawrence, Mark Rothko, and Jackson Pollock.
[Label text, 2003]
lower right
1986.11
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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86.11DI#2
digital image
8/2/2018
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Media/images/86.11_A2.jpg
Print
Night Shadows
Edward Hopper, 1882 - 1967
Hopper, Edward
United States
1882 - 1967
Male
10 5/8 x 13 3/16 in. (27 x 33.5 cm)
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sheet
sheet
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image
image
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1921
1921
1921
1900-2000, 20th century, American Scene/Regionalism, cityscapes, etchings, night
Print
Edward Hopper’s prints, like those of Martin Lewis, have a strong relationship to cinematic film noir. The artist gives us the sense that we are unseen watchers observing clandestine activity, and we have a feeling of unease. Strongly contrasting light and dark areas and sharp diagonal lines heighten these precarious and anxious feelings.
Who are these people? Are they city dwellers or newcomers? As Jonathan Franzen wrote in a 1966 essay in the New Yorker, “There’s no better way of rejecting where you came from, no plainer declaration of an intention to reinvent yourself, than moving to New York.” Hopper’s work suggests how the city’s cloak of anonymity makes Franzen’s statement possible.
[Label text, 2003]
lower right
1989.52
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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89.52DI#2
digital image
2/13/2015
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Print
Fourteenth Street, 1931
Isabel Bishop, (Cincinnati, OH, 1902 - 1988, Riverdale, NY)
Bishop, Isabel
United States
1902 - 1988
Female
Primary
15 7/16 x 11 15/16 in. (39.2 x 30.3 cm)
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sheet
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plate
plate
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1931
1931
1931
1900-2000, 20th century, cityscapes, etchings
Print
Ten folios and eight etchings, housed in a green cloth clamshell box with printed gold lettering.
lower right, Facsimile signaturelower leftlower right, For Stephen Sholinsky at Stem Graphics
D.C. Moore Gallery
1991.76.8
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Memorial Art Gallery
8/17/2020
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Print
Reflections in a Shop Window
Aaron Bohrod, 1907 - 1992
Bohrod, Aaron
United States
1907 - 1992
Male
11 7/8 x 16 in. (30.2 x 40.7 cm)
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sheet
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1948
1948
1948
1900-2000, 20th century, cityscapes, lithographs
Print
lower rightlower left, in imagelower left
1993.45
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
93.45SL1
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Drawing
Mr. Lincoln's Whiskers - Chop head
Douglas Warner Gorsline, (Rochester, NY, 1913 - 1985, Dijon, France)
Gorsline, Douglas Warner
United States
1913 - 1985
Male
1 3/4 x 5 3/8 in. (4.5 x 13.7 cm)
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image
image
Pen and ink
Pen and ink
ca. 1978
1973
1983
1900-2000, 20th century, Abraham Lincoln, by Rochester artists, cityscapes, drawing
Drawing
A suite of illustrations for the book "Mr. Lincoln's Whiskers."
lower right, below image
1995.41.3
item
Memorial Art Gallery
3/24/2000
95.41.3SL1
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Print
Emerson Street Stop, Rochester
Virginia Smith Dryer, (Rochester, NY, 1911 - 2011, Brighton, NY)
Dryer, Virginia Smith
United States
1911 - 2011
Female
16 x 12 9/16 in. (40.6 x 31.9 cm)
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sheet
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
0
0
1900-2000, 20th century, by Rochester artists, cityscapes, lithographs, views of Rochester & western New York
Print
lower right, below imagelower left, below image
2000.23
item
Memorial Art Gallery
1/5/2001
2000.23SL1
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3/6/2002
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Watercolor
Toulouse France
John C. Wenrich, 1894 - 1970
Wenrich, John C.
United States
1894 - 1970
Male
16 5/16 x 8 7/8 in. (41.5 x 22.5 cm)
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overall
vertical
sheet
Gouache
Gouache
1919
1919
1919
98.002
1900-2000, 20th century, by Rochester artists, cityscapes, watercolors
Watercolor
lower right, in imageversoverso, underlined and circled
2003.49
item
Memorial Art Gallery
8/18/2003
2003.49DI1
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Watercolor
Street in Verdun
John C. Wenrich, 1894 - 1970
Wenrich, John C.
United States
1894 - 1970
Male
7 5/16 x 11 1/8 in. (18.5 x 28.2 cm)
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horizontal
sheet
Gouache
Gouache
1919
1919
1919
84.051
1900-2000, 20th century, by Rochester artists, cityscapes, ruins, war, watercolors
Watercolor
After the war, John Wenrich stayed in Europe and sketched the cities and landscapes of France. In this bleak sketch of the French city of Verdun, dated January 18, 1919, Wenrich captured the devastation of modern warfare; a sight most Americans had little experience viewing first hand. The Battle of Verdun, a year-long battle that ended before America entered the war, resulted in nearly one million casualties and was the bloodiest battle of the war.
[Gallery label text]
lower right, in imageversoversoversoverso, first 2 letters in ink
2003.50
item
Memorial Art Gallery
8/18/2003
2003.50DI1
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Watercolor
Toulouse
John C. Wenrich, 1894 - 1970
Wenrich, John C.
United States
1894 - 1970
Male
13 3/4 x 7 5/8 in. (35 x 19.3 cm)
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Gouache
Gouache
c. 1919
1914
1924
98.001
1900-2000, 20th century, by Rochester artists, cityscapes, watercolors
Watercolor
versoversolower left
2003.63
item
Memorial Art Gallery
8/18/2003
2003.63DI1
digital image
00/00/00
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Media/images/2003.63_A1.jpg
2003.63DI#2
digital image
12/3/2015
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Media/images/2003.63_A2.jpg
Watercolor
Many Houses on Hillside
John C. Wenrich, 1894 - 1970
Wenrich, John C.
United States
1894 - 1970
Male
8 1/4 x 12 1/16 in. (21 x 30.6 cm)
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overall
horizontal
sheet
Gouache
Gouache
c. 1919
1914
1924
84.033
1900-2000, 20th century, by Rochester artists, cityscapes, houses, watercolors
Watercolor
lower left, below image, Obscured by paper residueversoversoverso
2003.67
item
Memorial Art Gallery
8/18/2003
2003.67DI1
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Watercolor
Allee St. Michel
John C. Wenrich, 1894 - 1970
Wenrich, John C.
United States
1894 - 1970
Male
14 x 9 1/4 in. (35.6 x 23.5 cm)
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sheet
Gouache
Gouache
1919
1919
1919
84.038
1900-2000, 20th century, by Rochester artists, cityscapes, watercolors
Watercolor
lower right, in imagelower left, in imagelower right, in marginversoverso
2003.69
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Memorial Art Gallery
8/18/2003
2003.69DI1
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Watercolor
Aix les Thermes
John C. Wenrich, 1894 - 1970
Wenrich, John C.
United States
1894 - 1970
Male
10 3/8 x 4 7/16 in. (26.4 x 11.2 cm)
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Gouache
Gouache
1919
1919
1919
98.013
1900-2000, 20th century, by Rochester artists, cityscapes, watercolors
Watercolor
lower right, in imagelower left, in image
2003.73
item
Memorial Art Gallery
8/18/2003
2003.73DI1
digital image
00/00/00
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Watercolor
Crepion
John C. Wenrich, 1894 - 1970
Wenrich, John C.
United States
1894 - 1970
Male
8 1/16 x 6 3/16 in. (20.5 x 15.7 cm)
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overall
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sheet
Gouache
Gouache
c. 1919
1914
1924
84.032
1900-2000, 20th century, by Rochester artists, cityscapes, watercolors
Watercolor
verso
2003.74
item
Memorial Art Gallery
8/18/2003
2003.74DI1
digital image
00/00/00
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Watercolor
Rue du Tour Toulouse
John C. Wenrich, 1894 - 1970
Wenrich, John C.
United States
1894 - 1970
Male
13 1/2 x 9 13/16 in. (34.3 x 25 cm)
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Gouache
Gouache
1919
1919
1919
84.050
1900-2000, 20th century, by Rochester artists, cityscapes, watercolors
Watercolor
lower right, in imagelower left, in imageversoversoversoversoverso
2003.78
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Memorial Art Gallery
8/18/2003
2003.78DI1
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Narrow Street Scene
John C. Wenrich, 1894 - 1970
Wenrich, John C.
United States
1894 - 1970
Male
12 13/16 x 7 1/2 in. (32.5 x 19 cm)
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Gouache
Gouache
c. 1919
1914
1924
98.009
1900-2000, 20th century, by Rochester artists, cityscapes, watercolors
Watercolor
lower right, below image in margin, partially obscured by paper residueverso
2003.84
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Memorial Art Gallery
8/18/2003
2003.84DI1
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Watercolor
Place des Salins, Toulouse
John C. Wenrich, 1894 - 1970
Wenrich, John C.
United States
1894 - 1970
Male
11 5/16 x 17 5/16 in. (28.8 x 44 cm)
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sheet
Gouache
Gouache
1919
1919
1919
93.057
1900-2000, 20th century, by Rochester artists, cityscapes, watercolors
Watercolor
lower right, in imageverso
2003.96
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Memorial Art Gallery
8/18/2003
2003.96DI1
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Watercolor
Clock
John C. Wenrich, 1894 - 1970
Wenrich, John C.
United States
1894 - 1970
Male
20 1/2 x 14 in. (52 x 35.5 cm)
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Opaque watercolor and charcoal
Opaque watercolor and charcoal
c.1919
1914
1924
84.040
1900-2000, 20th century, by Rochester artists, cityscapes, watercolors
Watercolor
In 2003, the Gallery received 50 drawings and watercolors that Rochester artist John C. Wenrich painted in France after he served in the First World War. This group includes both sketches and more fully developed images, like this one of Le Gros Horloge, or The Great Clock, in Rouen, France. Wenrich’s paintings show his fascination with the culture, history, and architecture of France. The pedestrian street below this clock links the site where Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in 1431 with the cathedral Claude Monet painted repeatedly, in different seasons and weather, during the 1890s.
[Label text from It Came From the Vault exhibition, 2013]
lower right, in image
2003.97
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Memorial Art Gallery
8/18/2003
2003.97DI1
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10/1/2012
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Painting
Russian Bridge, Close of Day
Leon Gaspard, 1882 - 1964
Gaspard, Leon
United States
1882 - 1964
Male
17 x 22 in. (43.2 x 55.9 cm)
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Oil
Oil
1922
1922
1922
1900-2000, 20th century, bridges, horses, landscapes, paintings, rivers
Painting
lower leftverso, Noted in WACC treatment proposal May 2017: Partial charcoal inscription on verso and artist’s signature; three diamond-shaped Colormen’s stamps on board verso, appear to have been sanded down, perhaps by artist?; remnants of another rectangular paper label also visible on verso, off-center.
1923.14
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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Memorial Art Gallery
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2/1/2001
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Print
Ponte Vecchio, Evening, Florence
Ernest D. Roth, 1879 - 1964
Roth, Ernest D.
United States
1879 - 1964
Male
14 11/16 x 12 5/8 in. (37.3 x 32 cm)
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1906
1906
1906
1900-2000, 20th century, bridges, etchings, Florence, Italy
Print
From the set "The Synoptic Process of Making an Etching."
yes, lower centerin the plate
1926.51.1
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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Recto
12/4/2007
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Painting
Café Maure, Sidi-Bou-Said, Tunisia
Old Café at Sidi-Bou-Said
Frank Townsend Hutchens, (Canandaigua, NY, 1869 – 1937, Palm Beach, FL)
Hutchens, Frank Townsend
United States
1869 - 1937
Male
39 x 45 in. (99.1 x 114.3 cm)
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Oil
Oil
1926 or later
1926
1926
1900-2000, 20th century, paintings
Painting
lower rightback of canvas, See photo attached.back of frameback of frameback of stretcher, May be artist's handback of frame, Grasset was a gilder and framer in Tunisia
1926.99
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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26.99DI#2
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4/1/2014
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Print
One O'Clock
Norman Kent, 1903 - 1972
Kent, Norman
United States
1903 - 1972
Male
10 1/4 x 8 in. (26 x 20.3 cm)
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vertical
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sheet
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
ca. 1931
1926
1936
1900-2000, 20th century, bridges, by Rochester artists, rivers, views of Rochester & western New York
Print
lower right, in imagelower right, in marginlower left, in marginlower right
1931.18
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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Print
High Level Bridge, Cleveland
Rudolph Ruzicka, 1883 - 1978
Ruzicka, Rudolph
United States
1883 - 1978
Male
10 3/16 x 7 5/8 in. (25.9 x 19.3 cm)
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block
image
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1926
1926
1926
boats, bridges, Cleveland, wood engravings
Print
lower rightlower left, in the blocklower right
1933.11
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
33.11SL1
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Watercolor
Fungus
Harwood Steiger, (Fairport NY, 1900 – 1980)
Steiger, Harwood
United States
1900 - 1980
Male
18 1/2 x 24 in. (47 x 61 cm)
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Watercolor
Watercolor
ca. 1939
1934
1944
1900-2000, 20th century, architecture in art, watercolors
Watercolor
Harwood Steiger, a master of the watercolor medium, lived for many years in Fairport, NY. Steiger’s industrial landscape is a ramshackle vision. The title, <em>Fungus</em>, implies Steiger’s impression of industry as a growing blight on the landscape. However, the almost-comical characterizations suggest a more harmless than threatening presence.
[label text for <em>Modern Icon: The Machine As Subject in American Art</em> exhibition, February 3 – March 6, 2012]
lower right
1939.8
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
39.8DI1
digital image
00/00/00
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39.8DI#2
digital image
11/18/2011
http://127.0.0.1:5000/Media/images/39.8_A2.jpg
Watercolor
South Norwalk
Douglas Warner Gorsline, (Rochester, NY, 1913 - 1985, Dijon, France)
Gorsline, Douglas Warner
United States
1913 - 1985
Male
22 x 17 5/8 in. (55.9 x 44.7 cm)
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vertical
sheet
Watercolor
Watercolor
ca. 1940
1935
1945
20th century, by Rochester artists, cityscapes, power lines, watercolors
Watercolor
lower left
1941.20
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
41.20SL1
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Print
Street in Hungary
A Street in Budapest
Kalman Kubinyi, 1906 - 1973
Kubinyi, Kalman
United States
1906 - 1973
Male
7 5/16 x 10 3/16 in. (18.5 x 25.8 cm)
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sheet
sheet
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image
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
ca. 1931
1926
1936
20th century, etchings, houses
Print
lower leftlower right
1944.30
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
44.30SL1
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44.30DI#1
digital image
7/30/2008
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Print
On the Seine
Stephen Brooks
Brooks, Stephen
Great Britain
Male
9 1/4 x 6 3/4 in. (23.5 x 17.1 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
0
0
20th century, boats, drypoint, rivers
Print
1944.37
item
Memorial Art Gallery
6/27/2001
44.37DI#1
digital image
2/5/2010
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Painting
Paris Roofs, Rue de la Bucherie
E. E. Cummings, 1894 - 1962
Cummings, E. E.
United States
1894 - 1962
Male
12 x 16 in. (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
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Oil
Oil
0
0
1900-2000, 20th century, cityscapes, paintings
Painting
verso
1944.46
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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5/9/2002
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Painting
Matin, Auray
Bridge at Avray
Walter Griffin, 1861 - 1935
Griffin, Walter
United States
1861 - 1935
Male
33 3/8 x 36 1/2 in. (84.8 x 92.7 cm)
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frame
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Oil
Oil
1913
1913
1913
1900-2000, American art, bridges, day, paintings, roads
Painting
lower left
1944.55
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
44.55SL1
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4/9/2008
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Print
London Street Scene with Drayhorse
Stephen Brooks
Brooks, Stephen
Great Britain
Male
6 1/2 x 9 in. (16.5 x 22.9 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
0
0
20th century, carts, cityscapes, horses, prints, transportation
Print
1947.55
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Memorial Art Gallery
6/27/2001
47.55DI#1
digital image
2/5/2010
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Print
Charing Cross Bridge
Robert Goff, (Ireland, 1837 - 1922, La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland)
Goff, Robert
Great Britain
1837 - 1922
Male
10 3/8 x 7 1/8 in. (26.4 x 18.1 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
0
0
bridges, carts, cityscapes, drypoint, horses, rivers, roads
Print
Robert Goff was a gifted amateur printmaker and painter who retired from the military to devote himself to his art. He specialized in topographical scenes in England and Europe. This drypoint depicts Charing Cross Bridge on London’s Thames River, a subject that Monet also pursued in his London series paintings.
[Label copy from Monet: Vision and Process exhibition, 2018]
1947.60
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Memorial Art Gallery
6/27/2001
47.60DI#1
digital image
2/5/2010
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Print
West Street
Alfred Butts, 1899 - 1993
Butts, Alfred
United States
1899 - 1993
Male
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
20th Century
1900
1999
1900-2000, 20th century, linocuts, New York city
Print
Like Rochesterian Walter Cassebeer, Alfred Butts was also an architect in New York City. He lost his job in 1929, and it may have been during the early 1930s that he created prints like this one of West Street in Lower Manhattan to generate some income. In addition to using his artistic skills to solve his financial problems, he turned his attention to the creation of a game that would capitalize on his love of crossword puzzles – and that game became Scrabble®.
West Street, the subject of this print, did not have as successful an outcome. A portion of it is within the security perimeter of the of the World Trade Center site, and a number of the landmark buildings on West Street sustained significant damage. There has been a movement to rename the street “Highway of Heroes” to commemorate efforts of the many valiant people who responded during the 9/11 disaster.
[Label text, 2003]
1947.71
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Memorial Art Gallery
6/8/2001
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11/20/2009
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Print
City Street
Sears Gallagher, 1869 - 1955
Gallagher, Sears
United States
1869 - 1955
Male
6 x 14 in. (15.2 x 35.6 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
0
0
1900-2000, 20th century, architecture in art, cityscapes, etchings, horses, people in art
Print
lower left
1947.84
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
47.84SL1
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Watercolor
The Fatio House, St. Augustine
Ralph Avery, 1906 - 1976
Avery, Ralph
United States
1906 - 1976
Male
15 x 21 in. (38.1 x 53.3 cm)
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Watercolor
Watercolor
0
0
20th century, art with Rochester connections, houses, MAG Lending Library, watercolors
Watercolor
The Fatio House is a landmark of St. Augustine, Florida, built in the early 19th century.
lower left, in image
1948.7
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
48.7SL1
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digital image
10/2/2015
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Painting
The Churchgoers
Colleen Browning, 1918 - 2003
Browning, Colleen
United States
1918 - 2003
Female
19 5/8 x 30 1/16 in. (49.8 x 76.4 cm)
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Oil
Oil
1950
1950
1950
1900-2000, American art, churches, cityscapes, houses, leisure activities, paintings, roads
Painting
upper leftverso, see Surrogate List for image
1950.22
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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5/9/2002
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50.22DI#2
digital image
7/13/2009
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50.22DI#3
digital image
6/22/2010
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Print
Limoges
John Taylor Arms, 1887 - 1953
Arms, John Taylor
United States
1887 - 1953
Male
12 1/16 x 15 3/16 in. (30.7 x 38.6 cm)
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Printer's ink
1932
1932
1932
1900-2000, 20th century, bridges, etchings, rivers
Print
John Taylor Arms was first trained as an architect, and went on to become the leading American printmaker of the first half of the 20th century. In 1934, Arms demonstrated “The Making of an Etching” at one of his many appearances before the Print Club of Rochester. He is best known for his detailed etchings of Gothic and medieval architecture.
In 1923, Arms began an ambitious project of drawing and etching the great cathedrals and churches of Europe. Limoges is one of his French Churches series featuring Saint-Étienne Cathedral, constructed between the 12th and 16th century. The view depicts the Vienne River and the mountainous landscape of the Massif Central region of France.
Excerpted from installation text, Aug. 2011
Colleen Piccone, Curatorial Dept.
lower right, below imagelower left, below imagelower left, below image
1959.30
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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59.30DI#2
digital image
7/12/2011
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Print
Tour la Collander
Louis Orr, 1879 - 1961
Orr, Louis
United States
1879 - 1961
Male
17 3/16 x 7 5/8 in. (43.7 x 19.4 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
0
0
Print
lower right
1959.41
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
59.41SL1
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digital image
2/17/2010
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Watercolor
Down a Crooked Street
Ralph Avery, 1906 - 1976
Avery, Ralph
United States
1906 - 1976
Male
16 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. (41.3 x 26 cm)
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Watercolor
Watercolor
0
0
Watercolor
1977.152.90
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
77.152.90SL1
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77.152.90DI#2
digital image
9/4/2015
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Drawing
Eastern Clouds
Ralph Avery, 1906 - 1976
Avery, Ralph
United States
1906 - 1976
Male
15 13/16 x 12 15/16 in. (40.1 x 32.9 cm)
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sheet
sheet
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image
image
Graphite
Graphite
1950
1950
1950
Rochester, NY, views of Rochester & western New York
Drawing
1977.152.315
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
77.152.315DI#1
digital image
2/4/2009
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Print
Roman Bridge, Verona
Henry Rushbury, (Harborne, England, 1889 - 1968)
Rushbury, Henry
England
1889 - 1968
Male
11 9/16 x 18 1/4 in. (29.4 x 46.4 cm)
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sheet
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1929
1929
1929
Print
1991.3
item
Memorial Art Gallery
2/3/2001
91.3SL1
slide
full
2 x 2
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glossy
8 x 10
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negative
2.5 x 3
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91.3DI1
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Print
King David Street with Fruit Vendors, Jerusalem
Mortimer Borne, 1902 - 1987
Borne, Mortimer
United States
1902 - 1987
Male
12 3/8 x 9 5/8 in. (31.4 x 24.4 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1935
1935
1935
Print
lower rightlower left
1991.61
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
91.61SL1
slide
full
2 x 2
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8 x 10
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2.5 x 3
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91.61DI1
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Painting
Street Scene
Emil Eugen Holzhauer, (Schwabisch-Gmund, Germany, 1887 - 1986, Niceville, FL)
Holzhauer, Emil
United States
1887 - 1986
Male
24 1/4 x 30 in. (61.6 x 76.2 cm)
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without frame
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overall
frame
Oil
Oil
1941
1941
1941
Painting
lower rightverso, upper left
2002.8
item
Memorial Art Gallery
3/27/2002
glossy
8 x 10
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negative
4 x 5
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2002.8SL1
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full
2 x 2
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2002.8DI1
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00/00/00
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