Manhattan Skyline
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Object Details
- Artist
- John Cunning, born Albany, NY 1889-died New York City 1953
- Exhibition Label
- This panoramic view of lower Manhattan seen from Brooklyn was an absorbing artistic project for artist John Cunning. He wrote to the Public Works of Art Project asking for more time. The artist needed many days to study the scene, capturing winter light effects on the many structures he described in detail.
- New York City goes about its varied daily businesses in Cunning's painting, despite the Depression. Whether or not their offices were full of workers, the Farmer's Trust Building, 120 Wall Street, the Bank of Manhattan, 60 Wall Tower, and the Singer Building towered proudly against the gray sky. Commuters who still had jobs had come from the outer boroughs in the ferry boats shown tied up at the Manhattan docks. Tugboats steam up and down the East River pulling barges and guiding the great ships that arrived in New York from all over the world. On the Brooklyn shore, cargo ships are tied up for loading or unloading. The men in the foreground are removing snow from the roofs of a coffee warehouse on Water Street near the Brooklyn Bridge.1934: A New Deal for Artists exhibition label
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Department of Labor
- 1934
- Object number
- 1964.1.44
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 32 1/8 x 48 1/8 in. (81.5 x 122.2 cm)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Cityscape\New York\New York
- Cityscape\river\East River
- Waterscape\harbor\New York Harbor
- Cityscape\weather\snow
- New Deal\Public Works of Art Project\New York City
- Architecture Exterior\commercial\skyscraper
- Architecture Exterior\industry\factory
- Record ID
- saam_1964.1.44
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk75c5501f3-ddad-425e-9507-1d316674dd35
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