Cityscapes of New York
Paintings from the Museum of the City of New York


Mari-Louise Van Esselstyn, The Escalator, 1943-44, egg tempera on masonite

On-line edition

Edited by
  Jan Seidler Ramirez

Essays by
Michele H. Bogart
Jan Seidler Ramirez
William R. Taylor

Special "on-line" essay by
Ellen Wiley Todd

Entries by
Barbara Ball Buff
Jan Seidler Ramirez

 

 

Contents

Foreword
Robert R. Macdonald
Painting the Town
Collecting Cityscapes and Urban Character at the Museum of the City of New York
Jan Seidler Ramirez
The Painter and the City
The Evolution of the New York Subject
William R. Taylor

Art Scenes and the Urban Scene in New York City
Michele H. Bogart

New York Stories: Narratives of Gender and Urban Space
Special "on-line"-only feature essay!
Ellen Wiley Todd
Catalogue of Paintings: 1800-1900 1900-2000

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