PAINTING THE TOWN: A Tribute to New York City

Featuring works of George Bellows, George Grosz, Keith Haring, Edward Hopper, Franz Kline, Oscar Kokoschka, Georgia O'Keeffe, John Marin, Piet Mondrian,  Maurice Prendergast, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand

The Radiator Building at Night- New York

GEORGIA O'KEEFFE
The Radiator Building at Night, 1927

 KEITH HARING
Drawing in New York City subway (untitled), 1983

CURATOR'S NOTES:
  New York City's history in art reveals the inherent dissonance of the place:  
its equal extremes of ostentation and  privation, of overcrowding and isolation,
of free-spirited innovation and grid-locked desperation.

I was one who didn't "heart" the place at all.
But, having witnessed its gallantry in the face and aftermath of attack,
I'm now one who's had a change of heart.


MAURICE PRENDERGAST
Central Park

 

GEORGE BELLOWS
Cliff Dwellers, 1913


Wall Street

PAUL STRAND
Wall Street, 1915

JOHN MARIN
Lower Manhattan from the River and Broadway at Night

Lower Manhattan from the River & Broadway at Nig

Room in Brooklyn

EDWARD HOPPER
Room in Brooklyn, 1932
Room in New York and New York Movie

New York Movie

BEN SHAHN
Speakeasy and Bootleggers


GEORGE GROSZ
Manhattan Harbor and Manhattan

Manhattan Harbor Manhattan


PIET MONDRIAN
New York City I, 1942



New York City I

FRANZ KLINE
New York

HEDY PAGREMANSKI
Yonah Schimmel Knish Bakery

              


Hard-edged.

 But essentially soft-hearted. 
That's New York.