Ceaseless Fascination

Believes

Magic land

Toots Thielemans, Adele Girard, and Joe Marsala outside the Onyx, ca. 1948.

Bruce Davidson (1933)

Untitled (Older couple, woman with scotch-taped glasses), from "East 100th Street" 1966-1968

Dorothy Eisner, Washington Square Park, 1938. Oil on canvas.

This painting was exhibited at Gracie Mansion in 2019 as part of “She Persists," a show dedicated to women artists in NYC over the past century. In her review of the exhibit in Artnet News, Eleanor Heartney describes this work:

“New York reappears at its most life-enhancing in Dorothy Eisner's Washington Square Park (1938), a painting centering on the Square's famous fountain. Water erupts and cascades over children splashing in the pool while adults on the periphery enjoy the sun. Historical circumstances give the work added resonance: at the time this work was created the fountain had just been restored by Robert Moses who was simultaneously pushing to bisect the park with one of his controversial highways. As a vocal opponent of this plan, Eisner here offers an image of the conviviality that Moses's dreams of automotive dominion would have destroyed.”

Roy Campanella, Jackie Robinson, and Don Newcombe of the Brooklyn Dodgers sign autographs for their young fans before the game against the St. Louis Cardinals at Ebbets Field on June 2, 1949.

Misty view of the Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan, 1922-24.

Looking south from Broadway and 53rd Street, with Warner Brothers ads, 1927.

Another dimension

Thomas Gregson, 10, holds flags as he watches William Rush, 8, place one at a grave in Cypress Hills National Cemetery, Brooklyn, May 28, 1955. Boy Scouts of the Brooklyn council decorated graves in preparation for Memorial Day. Over 500 scouts and their leaders took part in the annual ceremony of decorating 19,000 graves.

Girl by the Cyclone, Coney Island's roller coaster, 1957.

View looking north on Riverside Drive toward the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, 1925.