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	• Painting the Town: Cityscapes of New York (Paintings from the Museum of the City of New York) Yale University Press, 2000 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 2 reviews view larger image
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A Good Addition to Existing Scholarship

I was most impressed by Michele Bogart's contribution to this exciting catalog and her expansion of the understanding of American artistic understanding of the city. The pictures in this exhibition highlight some very talented but overlooked artists and counteract the understanding that the city was not a popular artistic subject until the late-nineteenth/early-twentieth century by the American Impressionists like Childe Hassam. Bogart explains with depth and great clarity how these American artists saw and depicted New York in their work. This new tension is a great addition to existing scholarship.

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Painting the Town; Cityscapes of New York

A comprehensive collection of reproductions of images of the City of New York since the city's founding to the present in the collection of The Museum of the City of New York. Detailed, informed descriptions written by the museums' curators and historians accompany each reproduction.

Painting the Town is a lively gathering of urban scene paintings that documents the development of New York City from a small colonial settlement to the world's foremost metropolis. The 160 cityscapes-ranging from general street scenes, harbor views, skylines, disasters, and celebrations to residential interiors, anecdotal pictures, and satirical vignettes--are drawn from some 2000 paintings in the collection of the Museum of the City of New York. Each painting is paired with commentary that tells the story of some aspect of the City's history.

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