Эль, Нью-Йорк (Шестая авеню Эль - Ноктюрн), 1894 - Чайльд Гассам |
Созданный во время самого плодотворного и творческого периода художника, The El, New York (Sixth Avenue El - Nocturne) символизирует типичный стиль художника 1890-х годов с его свободными, но сдержанными мазками, передающими энергию и движение города.
Childe Hassam - The El, New York (Sixth Avenue El - Nocturne),1894
Интересная заметка о надземных поездах, канувших в прошлое. Привожу небольшой текст без перевода, для тех, кому интересно.
"New York's elevated trains went back to before the Brooklyn Bridge, before the Statue of Liberty, relics of a day when grandmother was a girl, and after a certain point they became deemed rustily creaking menaces to the public safety. And they were, after all, losing money anyway. Thus, by mid-20th Century, the old Second, Sixth and Ninth Ave. els were but memories, abandoned and demolished and little mourned, the once-dark caverns beneath the hulking overhead trestles now flooded with sunshine. Finally, only the Third Ave. line still rattled along, from Chatham Square up to 149th St. in the Bronx, the avenue's gin mills and junk shops still nestled in the familiar old shadows, rumbling with the deafening echoes of once upon a time. Amid grand civic plans to brightly rehabilitate the entire East Side, a Third Ave. train made its final run on May 12, 1955, and the cutting torches went to work just two days later, and within a few months there was nothing left of New York's els, vanished into history like the horsecars before them. Real estate interests were jubilant. "I just hope the avenue doesn't become too expensive," fretted one elderly woman who had lived under the el her whole life."(https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/el-train-article-1.368701)
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christies.com/ (American Art, New York, 20 November 2018)
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