Found City Paintings

[olga]

I don't know if we've had a thread like this before. And I didn't really know which subforum to put it in... Anyways, here are some nice paintings that remind of the photos we post on this site! Add more pics if you like.


Howard Norton Cook (1901-1980):


Skycraper, 1928


Chrysler Building, 1930


Times Square Sector, 1930


Joseph Pennell (1857-1926):


Towers at Night, 1922


From Cortlandt Street Ferry, 1908


Sunset from the Williamsburg Bridge, 1915


The City in 1915, 1915


New York from Brooklyn, 1915


John Sloan (1871-1951):


Sixth Avenue Elevated at Third Street, 1928


Jefferson Market, 1917


The city from Greenwich Village, 1922


Six O'Clock, Winter, 1912


Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887-1976):


Coming out of school


The Football Match


Huddersfield


Riverbank, 1947


Edward Hopper (1882-1967):


Approaching a City 1946




Queensborough Bridge, 1913


American Village, 1912


Le Pont des Arts, 1907


Paris Street, 1906


Le Quai des Grands Augustins, 1909


Steps in Paris, 1906

[anm]

Thanks olga, I thought about a thread like this... maybe I'll post something to this one later.

[Grumpy]

Saw this painting in an art gallery in Blanes ,Spain last summer:

[Okstate]

LOVEEEE this painting, If you know where i could get a copy i'd love one

[olga]

^ Yeah, I'd love one for myself aswell!

@Grumpy: That's a beautiful painting!

[flar]

This is a nice change

[MayDay]

Great idea for a thread, olga!

When it comes to Art Deco and the dramatic, it doesn't get any better than Hugh Ferris:




Another classic is Georgia O'Keefe's painting of NYC's Radiator Building:


I also like the works of the Precisionists: two favorites are Charles Sheeler and Louis Lozowick:

"Church Street El" by Charles Sheeler (part of the Cleveland Museum of Art's permanent collection) - this aerial view of the El in Chicago reduces the scene to its most basic forms:


Lozowick:




I don't like *all* of Childe Hassam's work but I like this piece "Manhattan's Misty Sunset" (part of the Butler Institute of American Art's permanent collection in Youngstown):


Although his industrial design work is more well-known, I've always admired the city paintings of Viktor Schrekengost http://www.viktorschreckengost.org/:






And finally, this work by Red Grooms is pretty cool - it's about 7 feet tall, and "sculpted" in perspective - it's best viewed by sitting on the floor, since that gives you the effect of seeing everything at street level:

[Boquillas]

When I saw this thread I immediately thought of Wayne Thiebaud's San Francisco street paintings. I'm a painter myself and Thiebaud's thick impasto layering of colors from underpainting to surface is where I draw a lot of inspiration.

[boden]

by Herndon Davis (1901-1962)

by Terry Miura, contemporary,

by
Edward Seago (1910-1974)

[Ex-Ithacan]

These are beautiful. Thanks for posting 'em folks. I have no artistic talent what-so-ever, but I'm lovin' these.

[yerfdog]

Love those art deco era ones by Howard Norton Cook, Hugh Ferris, and Joseph Pennell. The characteristic zoning-law massing requirements that mandated those ziggurat steps are really made dramatic by all the darkness used in those ones.

I had never heard of Viktor Schrekengost, but those paintings are absolutely stunning. The Wayne Thiebaud ones are pretty hilarious.

[olga]

Originally Posted by Boquillas

Wayne Thiebaud's San Francisco street paintings.

Whoa, those make me dizzy! But i really like this one:

[HomeInMyShoes]

As MayDay, I originally thought Ferriss.



If anyone is looking to get me a gift sometime, I wouldn't mind a copy of this:

[MayDay]

I had never heard of Viktor Schrekengost, but those paintings are absolutely stunning."

He was more known for his industrial design work - as his stepson once said: "Chances are that almost every adult in America has ridden in, drunk out of, eaten off of, mowed their lawns with, sat on, placed a call with, lit the night with, hid their hooch in or had an arm or leg replaced with something created by Viktor Schreckengost,"

http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=3147

A few more:




His prints are reasonably priced and available at: http://viktorschreckengost.stores.ya...tyscapes2.html