Tuesday, February 1, 2022 – A WONDERFUL GIFT TO THE CITY ON VIEW AT THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2022


586th Issue


Celebrating

Scenes of New York City:

The Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld Collection

AT THE
NEW -YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY

On Saturday a surprise package arrived in the mail.  What is the New-York Historical Society sending me?  It was a wonderful surprise, a copy of “Scenes from New York City”.  This is the story of the 130 piece collection of NYC art just donated to the New-York Historical Society by Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld.

I had heard that the collection was being donated and looked forward to seeing it.  The book with the catalog tells the story of each piece and the artists. It was a wonderful read for a snowy day.  

Yesterday, I visited the exhibition that takes up the two large galleries on the second floor of the N-YHS.

The paintings are grouped by subjects (not in date order).  There are at least 5 pictures of the Queensboro Bridge, Roosevelt island and all are recognizable city sites.  I recognized many artists that we have featured in this publication.

Take the F train and the B train to Central Park West and enjoy this trip thru our city. The show is on until February 22nd. (No B train on weekends)

Thanks Elie and Sarah sharing these treasures with us.

Judith Berdy

ALL IMAGES ARE PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHTS ( C )

Bernard Buffet, Park Avenue View from the Pan Am Building (Park Avenue Vue du Pan Am Building),1989, framed print with glass glazing, measuring 11 x 14 inches.  Enjoy New-York Historical Society’s Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld Collection at home with this exclusive reproduction. Printed with archival-quality inks to acid-free and lignin-free 230gsm coated fine art paper. The bright white base and smooth matte finish of the paper guarantee the color accuracy of the images. Hanging wire is in-set making this print ready to hang.

Bernard Buffet (1928–1999) was a French painter of Expressionism and a member of the anti-abstract art group L’homme Témoin (the Witness-Man).  

Scenes of New York City: The Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld Collection, an extraordinary promised gift to the New-York Historical Society from philanthropists and art collectors Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld, celebrates a multifaceted and dynamic New York from the 19th century into the present day.  The pieces date from the year 1818 to the 21st-century and are all centered on New York City’s defining landmarks, from buildings, bridges and parks, to the art movements that shaped the city’s culture. The artworks are created by American and European artists like Norman Rockwell, Keith Haring, Edward Hopper, and Raoul Dufy, showing the city through their distinctive eyes.  On view October 22, 2021 – February 27, 2022.

William James Glackens (1870-1938) was an American realist painter and one of the founders of the Ashcan School, which rejected the formal boundaries of artistic beauty laid-down by the conservative National Academy of Design.

Adriaan Lubbers was born in the Netherlands in 1892. His early art career included exhibiting his works in March 1922 in Amsterdam. During that period he settled with others artists in a farmhouse at Vierhouten. There he met the painter Leo Gestel with whom he traveled to New York. At 33 years old, Lubbers produced his first drawings which depict New York landmarks in a realistic style.

Joseph Stella (1877-1946) was an Italian-born American Futurist painter best known for his depictions of industrial America, especially his images of the Brooklyn Bridge. He is also associated with the American Precisionist movement of the 1910s–1940s.

Marcel Gromaire (1892–1971) was a French painter. He painted many works on social subjects and is often associated with Social Realism, but Gromaire can be said to have created an independent oeuvre distinct from groups and movements.

Ernest Lawson’s, High Bridge Aqueduct, after 1928.

Enjoy New-York Historical Society’s Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld Collection at home with this exclusive postcard featuring Leon Kroll’s Broadway Looking South 1919. Measures 4 x 6 inches.

Leon Kroll (1884-1974) was an American painter and lithographer. A figurative artist described by Life magazine as “the dean of U.S. nude painters”, he was also a landscape painter and produced an exceptional body of still life compositions.

A SMALL SAMPLE OF THE WORKS

Red Grooms takes over a  New York street scene

Four views of the Queensboro Bridge
Miss Liberty standing proud

https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2022/02/15/clone-rihs-lecture-footsteps-nellie-bly

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LOS ANGELES LANDMARKES
LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY
TITLE GUARANTEE TRUST
UNION STATION
TO READ ABOUT THESE WONDERFUL BUILDINGS:
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/09/travel/downtown-los-angeles-california-art-deco-architecture.html

Laura Hussey got all of the buildings. Andy Sparberg, John Gattuso got some!!!

Text by Judith Berdy
Thanks to Bobbie Slonevsky for her dedication to Blackwell’s Almanac and the RIHS
Thanks to Deborah Dorff for maintaining our website
Edited by Melanie Colter and Deborah Dorff

All image are copyrighted (c) Roosevelt Island Historical Society unless otherwise indicated

NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY

ELIE AND SARAH HIRSHFELD COLLECTION
SCENES OF NEW YORK CITY

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