Thursday, August 19, 2021 – ONE OF OUR FAVORITE SUBJECTS… TRAVEL NEW YORK’S WONDERFUL BRIDGES

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THURSDAY,  AUGUST 19, 2021

THE  446th EDITION

BRIDGING NEW YORK

FROM

THE

SMITHSONIAN

AMERICAN ART

MUSEUM

• Herzl Emanuel, Lower Manhattan from Apartment in Brooklyn, 1937, bronze, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Patricia and Phillip Frost, 1986.92.20
• Herzl Emanuel created this piece shortly after he moved to New York. In this early work, he experimented with cubism by breaking up and distorting the traditional landscape format. Lower Manhattan from Apartment in Brooklyn displays patterns of bricks, architectural details, fragments of the Brooklyn Bridge, and ripples of water to create an imagined cityscape of jumbled shapes and crisscrossing lines.

“Hopefully one idea, the strongest, the most persistent, nagging and tenacious will emerge and survive, impose its will, resolve the conflict and cause a work of sculpture to come into being.” Herzl Emanuel, 1983

Todd Webb, Manhattan Bridge from Pike Street, New York, 1946, gelatin silver print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist, 1985.38.11, © 1946, Todd Webb

Harry LeRoy Taskey, Approach to George Washington Bridge, lithograph, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the Evander Childs High School, Bronx, New York through the General Services Administration, 1975.83.94

Everett Warner, Falling Snow, New York, 1922, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Henry Ward Ranger through the National Academy of Design, 1978.63

Ann Nooney, Near Brooklyn Bridge, 1935-1941, lithograph on paper mounted on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the Evander Childs High School, Bronx, New York through the General Services Administration, 1975.83.71

Louis Lozowick, Distant Manhattan from Brooklyn (Distant New York), 1937, lithograph on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Adele Lozowick, 1980.43.8, © 1937, Lee Lozowick

Stow Wengenroth, High Arches, Brooklyn Bridge, n.d., lithograph, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Stow Wengenroth, 1966.15.4

Prentiss Taylor, The Bridge, Sunday, 1952, lithograph on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Roderick S. Quiroz, 1995.45.1, © 1991, Roderick S. Quiroz

Werner Drewes, Hellgate Bridge, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist, 1969.3.22

John Chapman Lewis, East River Bridge, 1950, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Frank McClure, 1979.98.439

Godfrey Frankel, Abandoned Chairs, Brooklyn Bridge, 1947, printed 1972, gelatin silver print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1985.15.1, © 1950, Godfrey Frankel

Ernest David Roth, Queensboro Bridge, Manhattan, 1935, etching, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Chicago Society of Etchers, 1935.13.660

THURSDAY PHOTO OF THE DAY

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WEDNESDAY  PHOTO OF THE DAY
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