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Print
Old Chinatown, New York
Earl Horter, 1881 - 1940
Horter, Earl
United States
1881 - 1940
Male
12 15/16 x 16 9/16 in. (32.8 x 42 cm)
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0
1900-2000, 20th century, aquatints, New York city
Print
lower rightlower left
1932.13
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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Print
Avenue of the Allies
Childe Hassam, 1859 - 1935
Hassam, Childe
United States
1859 - 1935
Male
17 7/8 x 11 1/2 in. (45.4 x 29.2 cm)
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1918
1918
1918
1900-2000, 20th century, line, lithographs, movement, New York city
Print
lower left, in the stonelower right, below image
1940.9
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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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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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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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
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
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Print
North River
Childe Hassam, 1859 - 1935
Hassam, Childe
United States
1859 - 1935
Male
11 x 11 3/8 in. (27.9 x 28.9 cm)
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1917
1917
1917
1900-2000, 20th century, boats, lithographs, New York city, rivers
Print
lower rightlower right
1940.29
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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Print
St. Thomas, New York
Childe Hassam, 1859 - 1935
Hassam, Childe
United States
1859 - 1935
Male
8 x 10 5/8 in. (20.3 x 27 cm)
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1918
1918
1918
1900-2000, 20th century, churches, lithographs, New York city
Print
lower leftlower left, in margin
1940.33
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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Print
East River
Hugh Botts, 1903 - 1964
Botts, Hugh
United States
1903 - 1964
Male
11 3/4 x 9 7/8 in. (29.8 x 25.1 cm)
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1936
1936
1936
1900-2000, 20th century, etchings, jobs & work, New York city, rivers
Print
lower right, below platelower left, below plate
1942.40
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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11/13/2007
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Print
The Bridge at Hell Gate
Joseph Pennell, 1860 - 1926
Pennell, Joseph
United States
1860 - 1926
Male
10 3/8 x 12 15/16 in. (26.4 x 32.9 cm)
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1915
1915
1915
1900-2000, 20th century, bridges, etchings, New York city
Print
below image, midpoint
1947.61
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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7/3/2002
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Print
West Street
Alfred Butts, 1899 - 1993
Butts, Alfred
United States
1899 - 1993
Male
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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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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
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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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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
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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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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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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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
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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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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7/3/2002
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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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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
47.75.6DI1
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7/3/2002
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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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
47.75.11DI1
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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
9/8/1999
47.75.12DI1
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7/3/2002
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Watercolor
New York
Ludwig Bemelmans, 1898 - 1962
Bemelmans, Ludwig
United States
1898 - 1962
Male
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Watercolor
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1900-2000, 20th century, MAG Lending Library, New York city, paintings
Watercolor
The creator of the beloved Madeline stories had a sharp and satirical eye for the scenes that he found around him in his adopted city of New York. In addition to his children’s books, Bemelmans illustrated for the New Yorker, Vogue, and Holiday magazines. Currently, the curator is trying to determine if this artwork was designed for a New Yorker cover.
Upscale New York restaurant were familiar territories for Bemelmans. At age 14, he was apprenticed to his uncle, a hotelier in the Tyrol. The young Bemelmans’ lack of success – and outright bad behavior – contributed to his emigration to America, where he sought his fortune as a waiter at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in New York City. After serving in World War I, he opened and decorated his own restaurant. When a friend in the publishing business suggested that he turn his whimsical paintings into stories, Bemelmans wrote his first children’s book – Hansi. In 1939, Madeline appeared. He went on to write for adults, and in 1941, wrote Hotel Splendide, a fictional account of a grand hotel with an elegant, but problem-ridden restaurant.
Bemelmans is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. His public work survives in the 1947 mural commission for the Hotel Carlyle on Madison Avenue – in what is now called Bemelmans Bar.
[Label text, 2003]
lower right
Barbara Bemelmans
1958.66
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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Print
Downtown, New York
John Marin, 1870 - 1953
Marin, John
United States
1870 - 1953
Male
6 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. (17.1 x 22.2 cm)
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1921
1921
1921
1900-2000, 20th century, etchings, New York city
Print
In John Marin’s <em>Downtown, New York</em>, the viewer experiences the dizzying, disorienting sensation of looking up at the buildings while walking on a city street. Marin’s urban vision was one of energy, force, and fragmentation. He sought to capture the frenetic pace of the modern urban experience and the power of skyscrapers as though they themselves were active players in the city’s vitality, as “warring, pushing, pulling forces.” The slashing diagonal form is the elevated railroad that dominated the New York City landscape starting in the 1870s.
[label text for <em>Modern Icon: The Machine As Subject in American Art</em> exhibition, February 3 – March 6, 2012]
1975.245
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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Market on 38th Street
William Gropper, 1897 - 1977
Gropper, William
United States
1897 - 1977
Male
11 1/4 x 15 1/2 in. (28.6 x 39.4 cm)
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1965
1965
1965
1900-2000, 20th century, etchings, New York city
Print
As a lifelong supporter of the organized labor movement, William Gropper sensitively depicted many New Yorkers at work in tough circumstances, including in the sweat shops of the Garment District (now called the Fashion Center). After turning to etching in his late sixties, Gropper created this image of laborers pushing empty racks and pulling loaded carts on 38th St. in the busy and chaotic District. His signature caricature style is a continuation of his early political cartooning in Die Freiheit, a Yiddish newspaper printed by the Jewish Federation of the Worker’s Party.
[Label text, 2003]
1975.327.10
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9/8/1999
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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
Watercolor
circa 1975
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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]
1977.152.139
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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Watercolor
Brooklyn Bridge, New York
Ralph Avery, 1906 - 1976
Avery, Ralph
United States
1906 - 1976
Male
7 7/16 x 11 in. (18.9 x 28 cm)
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sheet
sheet
Watercolor
Watercolor
20th Century
1900
1999
boats, bridges, by Rochester artists, New York city, rivers, watercolors
Watercolor
1977.152.165
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
77.152.165.SL1
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77.152.165DI#2
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2/4/2009
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Print
East River near the Queensborough Bridge
Hugh Botts, 1903 - 1964
Botts, Hugh
United States
1903 - 1964
Male
10 1/4 x 8 1/2 in. (26 x 21.6 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1936
1936
1936
1900-2000, 20th century, bridges, etchings, leisure activities, New York city, rivers
Print
The rivers surrounding Manhattan have always attracted swimmers brave – or foolish – enough to endure pollutants and random bits of garbage floating nearby. Fortunately, the quality of New York waterways is currently improving, and sights like the one may be more common in the future.
Looming above the swimmers and boaters enjoying the East River is the Queensborough Bridge, also known as the 59th Street Bridge, made famous by Simon and Garfunkel’s album and song (Feeling Groovy). One of the many bridges that have been artists’ favorites, the Queensborough Bridge connects Manhattan and Queens. Over a mile long, it was opened to traffic in 1909. The spires that were part of the original design, and that can be seen in this print, were removed in the 1950s because of their deteriorating condition.
[Label text, 2003]
in the image
1983.134.19
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
83.134.19DI1
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83.134.19DI#2
digital image
11/13/2007
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Print
Central Park Lake
Hugh Botts, 1903 - 1964
Botts, Hugh
United States
1903 - 1964
Male
6 1/4 x 11 3/4 in. (15.9 x 29.8 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
20th Century
1900
1999
1900-2000, 20th century, aquatints, Central Park
Print
lower right
1983.134.21
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
83.134.21SL1
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Print
Washington Square South
Hugh Botts, 1903 - 1964
Botts, Hugh
United States
1903 - 1964
Male
7 x 8 3/4 in. (17.8 x 22.2 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1939
1939
1939
1900-2000, 20th century, etchings, New York city
Print
Out of necessity and solidarity artists banded together to survive the Great Depression by collective efforts to make, show, and sell their work. Hugh Botts’ keen sense of humor and ability to market his work is clear in Washington Square Park South. This display of eight of his prints tacked to a fence mimics how he probably displayed his work to sell at the Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit (established in 1931). This outdoor, public exhibition of art for sale, similar to the Memorial Art Gallery’s own annual Clothesline Arts Festival, is still in operation today in New York City.
The prints depicted were among Bott’s most successful images; Columbus Circle was reprinted in the 1939 WPA guide to New York, Roosevelt Wing Museum was the feature of an article about the artist in Christian Science Monitor, and House Painter was a prizewinning print noted by the New York Times reviewer as characteristic of the artist’s wit.
[Label text]
Since 1931, artists have shown their works in an annual exhibition in Greenwich Village’s Washington Square. Launched during the Depression by Jackson Pollock, Alice Neel, and other artists seeking to have their work seen and purchased, the show became a popular (and inexpensive) way of gaining recognition.
In this etching, Hugh Botts shows his own works on view in Washington Square. In characteristic fashion, the artist includes his whimsical touches – for example, a trompe l’oeil label with his name and date on it. Look closely, and you’ll find a miniature version of an etching in this exhibition.
[Label text, 2003]
lower right, in image
1983.134.44
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
83.134.44DI2
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83.134.44DI1
digital image
11/13/2007
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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
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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
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
86.11SL1
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8/2/2018
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Print
New York from Weehawken
Mortimer Borne, 1902 - 1987
Borne, Mortimer
United States
1902 - 1987
Male
6 15/16 x 10 in. (17.7 x 25.4 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1929
1929
1929
1900-2000, 20th century, drypoint, New York city
Print
lower rightlower right
1989.54
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
89.54SL1
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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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without frame
image
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overall framed size
horizontal
frame
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
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
91.5TR1
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Memorial Art Gallery
Imaging complete
6/23/2000
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Print
A View of New York from the North West
Wooded Heights View
Attributed to Joseph F.W. Des Barres, (Switzerland, 1729 - 1824, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)
Des Barres, Joseph F.W.
Switzerland
1729 - 1824
Male
10 5/8 x 17 13/16 in. (27 x 45.3 cm)
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sheet
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1774
1774
1774
1600-1800, 18th century, aquatints, boats, New York city, seascapes
Print
A print from the first important marine atlas, American Neptune, presents a scene of British naval vessels sailing near rural Manhattan shores – ostensibly a peaceful and calm moment, but deceptively so, since it would only be a matter of months before resistance to British rule surfaced. The New York that we see through Des Barres’s eyes is over two centuries and a national history removed from Rhonda Schaller’s memento mori for the destruction of the World Trade Center, but contained in both works is the kernel of political struggle and tragic loss of life.
[Label text, 2003]
below image
1992.30
item
Memorial Art Gallery
2/3/2001
92.30SL1
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92.30DI#2
digital image
7/24/2009
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Print
Lincoln Center (Poster)
Roy Lichtenstein, (New York, NY, 1923 - 1997, New York, NY)
Lichtenstein, Roy
United States
1923 - 1997
Male
45 x 29 5/8 in. (114.4 x 75.2 cm)
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Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1966
1966
1966
1900-2000, 20th century, advertising, lithographs, New York city
Print
This Pop Art poster was created to advertise the fourth New York film festival at Lincoln Center in 1966. With primary colors and his signature Ben Day dots (used in commercial printing to produce halftones), Lichtenstein integrated bold elements to create an attention-getting image that would be visible on city streets. He was paid to design the poster by the Lincoln Center Poster Project, which was begun by New York philanthropist Vera List. In an interview in 1973, Mrs. List described her reason for creating the project:
"I’ve always believed that one’s environment is what stimulates people. It’s what stimulated me as a child…you’d go to Paris and see all the exciting posters around there which were very colorful and stimulating…but you walk around New York, and you see the three-sheeter. So that gave birth to the idea of allocating a certain sum for posters. The idea was to commission the fine artist, the creative artist of the time…to bring to the general public –they walk down the street, they see an image, something would attract them, and something would happen…I always felt that if people’s sensibilities were awakened, they would seek to make the whole city a more amenable place in which to live. So that’s how that started."
[Label text, 2003]
lower leftlower right, in image, Monogram with text printed in an oval shape
Shelley Lee
1992.51
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
92.51DI1
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Painting
Two Bridges, Washington and High, Harlem River, New York
Two Bridges, Washington and High, East River, New York (original title)
Hayley Lever, (Adelaide, Australia, 1875 - 1958, Mount Vernon, NY)
Lever, Hayley
United States
1875 - 1958
Male
13 x 16 in. (33 x 40.6 cm)
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Oil
Oil
circa 1916
1911
1921
20th century, boats, bridges, landscape, landscapes, New York city, paintings
Painting
lower right
1953.1
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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6/26/2007
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53.1DI#1
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4/9/2008
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Drawing
East River, New York
Walter Henry Cassebeer, 1884 - 1963
Cassebeer, Walter Henry
United States
1884 - 1963
Male
8 7/8 x 12 1/16 in. (22.6 x 30.6 cm)
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sheet
Graphite
Graphite
1912
1912
1912
20th century, by Rochester artists, drawing, East River
Drawing
in the marginlower right, in image
1914.42.2
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Memorial Art Gallery
1/11/2000
14.42.2DI1
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12/7/2010
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Drawing
New York, St. John's
Walter Henry Cassebeer, 1884 - 1963
Cassebeer, Walter Henry
United States
1884 - 1963
Male
12 1/16 x 8 7/8 in. (30.6 x 22.6 cm)
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sheet
Graphite
Graphite
1912
1912
1912
20th century, by Rochester artists, churches, New York city
Drawing
lower rightin the marginlower edge
1914.42.5
item
Memorial Art Gallery
1/11/2000
14.42.5DI1
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12/7/2010
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Drawing
East River, 58th Street
Walter Henry Cassebeer, 1884 - 1963
Cassebeer, Walter Henry
United States
1884 - 1963
Male
8 15/16 x 12 1/16 in. (22.7 x 30.6 cm)
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sheet
Graphite
Graphite
1913
1913
1913
20th century, boats, by Rochester artists, East River, rivers
Drawing
In the early 20th century, Rochester architect Walter Cassebeer sketched many of the same subjects as Louis Lozowick, Hugh Botts and Ralph Avery, but with a more intimate and delicate hand. Even a grimy operation like the Curtis & Blaisdell coal storage facility, on the East River at 58th St., is poetic when seen through Cassebeer’s eyes.
Walter Cassebeer received his architecture degrees from Columbia University and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. After his training in France, he worked for the firm of Everett, Waide, Wells, Bosworth & Platt before returning to practice architecture in Rochester. It is most likely during his tenure with Charles Platt’s firm that he captured these New York vignettes.
In Rochester, Cassebeer’s work can be seen at the Henry Lomb Memorial, in the neighborhood of Upper Falls Boulevard and St. Paul St. Also, his measured drawings of
architectural details of New York State houses can be seen at the Wenrich Library of the Landmark Society.
[Label text, 2003]
lower rightverso
1914.42.6
item
Memorial Art Gallery
1/11/2000
14.42.6DI1
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Print
The Great Bridge [Verrazano-Narrows Bridge)
Lili Rethi, 1894 - 1969
Rethi, Lili
United States
1894 - 1969
Female
16 3/4 x 12 11/16 in. (42.5 x 32.3 cm)
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image
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
ca. 1964
1959
1969
Print
1975.277
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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12/4/2007
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Recto
12/7/2007
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Watercolor
Face of New York
Ralph Avery, 1906 - 1976
Avery, Ralph
United States
1906 - 1976
Male
14 x 9 in. (35.5 x 22.8 cm)
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sheet
sheet
Watercolor
Watercolor
0
0
Watercolor
1977.152.42
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
77.152.42DI#1
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2/4/2009
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Watercolor
Atlas/Rockefeller Center - Winter
Ralph Avery, 1906 - 1976
Avery, Ralph
United States
1906 - 1976
Male
8 7/8 x 12 in. (22.5 x 30.5 cm)
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sheet
sheet
Watercolor
Watercolor
20th Century
1900
1999
Watercolor
1977.152.61
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
77.152.61DI#1
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2/4/2009
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Watercolor
A Rochester Corner
Ralph Avery, 1906 - 1976
Avery, Ralph
United States
1906 - 1976
Male
22 1/2 x 30 1/8 in. (57.2 x 76.5 cm)
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overall
sheet
Watercolor
Watercolor
0
0
Rochester, NY, views of Rochester & western New York
Watercolor
lower left, in image
1977.152.72
item
Memorial Art Gallery
7/16/2001
77.152.72DI#1
digital image
2/4/2009
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Watercolor
All around New York
Ralph Avery, 1906 - 1976
Avery, Ralph
United States
1906 - 1976
Male
13 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. (33.6 x 26 cm)
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sheet
sheet
Watercolor
Watercolor
after 1951
1952
1961
Watercolor
Same view as 77.152.138, Lever House, New York.
1977.152.172
item
Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
77.152.172DI#1
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2/4/2009
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Print
In Front of 42nd Street Library
Eight Etchings, 1927-1934
Isabel Bishop, (Cincinnati, OH, 1902 - 1988, Riverdale, NY)
Bishop, Isabel
United States
1902 - 1988
Female
Primary
9 15/16 x 13 1/16 in. (25.3 x 33.2 cm)
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sheet
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plate
plate
Printer's ink
Printer's ink
1927
1927
1927
Print
Posthumous-edition. Ten folios and eight etchings, housed in a tan buckram clamshell box with printed gold lettering.
lower right, Facsimile signature.lower leftlower right, For Stephen Sholinsky at Stem Graphics
D.C. Moore Gallery
1991.77.1
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Memorial Art Gallery
9/8/1999
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