Bliss Is Where You Find It

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Ninth Ave. and 35th St.

Acrylic on canvas

Tenth Avenue at West 24th Street

Acrylic on Canvas

West Side Corner

Acrylic on Canvas

A view of LIC and Manhattan

John Haymson, Brooklyn Bridge, ca. 1955. Oil on canvas.

Postcard showing Rockefeller Center, ca. 1930s.

Robert Wilvers, Trinity Church, ca. 1956-57. Watercolor and pencil on paperboard.

This painting was included in a 2024 exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum entitled "Steel and Sky: Views of New York City." It showcased the experiences and achievements of a broad cross-section of artists, such as Isabel Bishop, Peggy Bacon, Paul Cadmus, William H. Johnson, and John Sloan, who practiced in New York through the early and middle years of the twentieth century.

Wilvers was also a commercial artist and a prominent advertising executive. In the 1970s he helped develop the commercials for Alka-Seltzer built around the jingle ''Plop, plop, fizz, fizz. Oh, what a relief it is.''

Harry St. John Dix, Downtown New York, ca. 1930. Oil on canvas.

Alfred S. Mira, Washington Square Park, 1930. Oil on canvas.

Isabella Banks Markell, Gracie Mansion, ca. 1944. Oil on canvas.

Markell features the historic mayor's mansion in the foreground with the Hell Gate Bridge in the background, obscured by the smoke and steam of the surrounding city and boats moving along the river. Markell's brushy style draws on Expressionist, Post-Impressionist, and even Ashcan conventions to present a spare, almost sketchy modernist image.

Jean Dominique van Caulaert, Broadway, 1952. Oil on masonite.

Caulaert was a French painter, poster artist, illustrator, and designer. In Paris, he painted stars such as Edith Piaf, Tino Rossi, Mistinguett, Rena Kaetty and Nita Rahia, and created posters for the likes of Mistinguett, Rossi, Marie Dubas, Josephine Baker, Cecile Sorel, Suzy Solidor, and Lys Gauty. In 1951, he began spending eight months a year in New York, and continued doing so until his death in 1979.

Alfred S. Mira, East 42nd Street, 1943. Oil on canvasboard.

Cover of the July 7, 1934 issue of The New Yorker, by Ilonka Karasz.

Walter Tittle, Grand Central Night, 1929. Drypoint.