Pennsylvania Station Excavation (Q28777912)
Label from: English (en)
genre:
cityscape (Q1935974)
artist:
George Bellows (Q167132)
collection:
Brooklyn Museum (Q632682)
location:
Brooklyn Museum (Q632682)
instance of:
painting (Q3305213)
Google Arts & Culture asset ID:
NwGOJBG7pSUwGQ
Brooklyn Museum artwork ID:
1355
catalog URL: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/1355
information from the Brooklyn Museum catalog
description:
Between 1907 and 1909, George Wesley Bellows completed a series of four canvases devoted to the excavation of Pennsylvania Station in midtown Manhattan. In this version, laborers are dwarfed by the gaping pit they have created as they tear down the old New York in order to build it anew. The dark palette and vigorous brushwork, coupled with the chill winter atmosphere and billowing plumes of steam and smoke, lend additional drama to the scene. The painting has an infernal quality, suggesting the artist’s ambivalence about the rapid transformation of New York in the early twentieth century. The grand railroad terminal that would rise from this excavation was eventually demolished in 1963.
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