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A nighttime view of Bleecker and Carmine Streets13 comments

ephemeralnewyork wrote 1 month ago: It’s a dark night at this moment in time on the corner of Bleecker and Carmine Streets in 1915 … more →

Tags: West Village, Music, art, theater, Bleecker Street, Italian Greenwich Village, Carmine Street, Italian neighborhoods New York City, Greenwich Village paintings, New York in 1915, Our Lady of Pompeii church Greenwich Village

landscape with pool

∫ø˚£ wrote 8 months ago: … more →

Tags: Art, landscape, landscape with pool

george luks

∫ø˚£ wrote 8 months ago: I | II | III | IV | V … more →

Tags: Art, Links, the breaker boys

George Bellows and Boxing2 comments

the self-hating hipster wrote 1 year ago: When I was younger, my father, who was (and still is) a Hudson River painting collector/dealer, trie … more →

Tags: Painting, lithography, boxing, boxing, Sotheby's, Lithograph, George Bellows, Preliminaries (to the Big Bout), lithography

New York State of Mind

Experiment Station wrote 1 year ago: Photo: Piper Grosswendt A fresh suite of artworks quietly debuted earlier this month in a small gall … more →

Tags: experiment station, Gifford Beal, Alfred Stieglitz, New York, Berenice Abbott, Loren MacIver, 9/11, Gandy Brodie, Aaron Siskind

Today is Flag Day1 comment

Sarah Osborne Bender wrote 1 year ago: George Luks, Blue Devils on Fifth Avenue, 1918. Oil on canvas, 38 5/8 x 44 1/2 in. The Phillips Coll … more →

Tags: experiment station, Flag Day, soldiers, marching, New York, WWI

The pushcarts and peddlers of Houston Street6 comments

ephemeralnewyork wrote 2 years ago: George Luks’ 1916 “Houston Street” shows a fiery, frenzied scene of buying and sel … more →

Tags: Fashion and Shopping, Music, art, theater, Lower East Side, houston street, New York City in 1916, lower east side new york city, peddlers on the Lower East Side, history of the Lower East Side, ashcan school artists

Nighttime buying and selling on Allen Street3 comments

ephemeralnewyork wrote 2 years ago: A dress shop, furniture and rugs for sale on the sidewalk, a pretzel vendor—there’s a lot happ … more →

Tags: Music, art, theater, Lower East Side, Ashcan School, Allen Street, New York in the 20th century, Lower East Side life, American realist painters

Noteworthy Events

Katherine Bogden wrote 3 years ago: In the Gallery and Beyond Teo Gonzalez, "Drawing 237," 2010, mixed media on paper, 12-1/4 … more →

Tags: Gallery Events, Beyond the gallery, andrew wyeth, Architechtural Digest Home Design Show, Burgoyne Diller, danforth museum, Edward Henry Potthast, Gertrude Greene, James Daugherty

Blackface As a Prism For Seeing the World1 comment

Jeet Heer wrote 3 years ago: George Luks's Queen Liliokalani cartoon from Verdict, January 16, 1899 Blackface, as we’ve touch … more →

Tags: Popular Culture, blackface, george mcmanus, Queen Liliokalani, Winsor McCay

Ashcan School - Part I4 comments

Spanierman Gallery, LLC wrote 3 years ago: Lisa N. Peters (Read Ashcan School-Part II and Ashcan School-Part III) Focus on the Ashcan School. . … more →

Tags: Research, George Bellows, william glackens, Jerome Myers, The Eight, John Sloan, Ashcan School, Robert Henri, maurice prendergast

Im-portant

nkhverma wrote 4 years ago: More handwriting,  this time from the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian. A 1930 letter fro … more →

Tags: Handwriting, Bar Room Brawls, Invitations to Dinner, The Eight, Samuel Ross Ballin


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