Stuff and Nonsense

Roy Henry Brown, Washington Square Park, ca. 1920. Oil on board.

Guy Wiggins, St. Patrick’s in Winter, ca. 1940. Oil on board.

Guy Wiggins was an extremely popular painter of the first half of the 20th century. When he was 20, he became the youngest artist to have a work included in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. When he started painting scenes of snowy New York, his popularity surged. He claimed to have been trying to paint a summer landscape, not able to progress, when he looked out the window of his studio on a winter day and decided to paint the row of buildings across the street blurred by the snow storm.

Third Avenue and 10th Street in a snowstorm, 1952.

Grand Central dressed for Christmas, 1930.

Preparing The Majestic for a new performance of Phantom of the Opera

Broadway, 1952.

PALAIS GARNIER - Opéra national de PARIS by @josecmartinezofficial

Oh it’s too hard not to share this with everyone! Now if you’re someone with poto audios and you want to trade one as a thank you, I won’t object 😂

Ben Crawford, Kanisha Marie Feliciano, Paul A. Schaefer, Raquel Suarez Groen, David Michael Garry, Nehal Joshi, Maree Johnson, Carlton Moe, Sara Esty.

Other understudies: Greg Mills as Don Attilio/Buquet, Trista Moldovan as Wardrobe Mistress/Confidante, Bronson Norris Murphy as Marksman, Joseph DePietro as Monsieur Reyer/Hairdresser and Katharine Heaton as Madame Firmin.

Even covered with snow, the library lions, Patience (left) and Fortitude, quietly guard the 42nd St. Library, December 1948.

The RCA Promenade at Rockefeller Center decorated for Christmas, 1956. The view is facing east. In the center is Saks Fifth Avenue with its own holiday decorations.

Todd Webb took this as a single, panoramic photo, but also broke it up into the four parts you see above. It shows Sixth Avenue between 43rd and 44th Streets in 1948.

Shea’s Gas Station, Springfield, Illinois, 2005. Red pumps.

This image is available. Find it in my Route 66 Collection: http://frank-romeo.pixels.com/

Barber shop, 1957.