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Church Street El, 1920 (oil on canvas)

IMAGE number
CVL499910
Image title
Church Street El, 1920 (oil on canvas)
Artist
Sheeler, Charles (1883-1965) / American
Location
Cleveland Museum of Art, OH, USA
Medium
oil on canvas
Date
1920 AD (C20th AD)
Dimensions
60x67.5 (framed) 41x48.5 (unframed) cms
Image description

Capturing the soaring heights of New York City, this painting is a dramatic bird’s eye view of Broadway and Wall Street, showing a conglomeration of buildings at left and center, and the Church Street elevated train at right. Sheeler based his composition on an image from the short movie Manhatta (1920), which he made with the photographer Paul Strand. One of the first avant-garde American films, Manhatta celebrates the dynamic metropolis through a series of carefully composed shots of Lower Manhattan. As typical with Sheeler’s work, the artist simplified forms and eliminated textures in Church Street El to concentrate on rhythmic interplays of shapes and color, as well as patterns of light and shadow.

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Photo © Cleveland Museum of Art / Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund / Bridgeman Images
Image keywords
20th century / building / cityscape / New York (city) / USA / North America / America (continent) / New York (state) / tower block / new york city / shadow / skyscrapers / american architecture / shadows / exterior / modern / metropolitan / towers / windows / manhattan / nyc / Painting / Mzpainting
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