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As one who experienced New York
on a daily basis, Florine Stettheimer was inspired to paint The Cathedrals series, four large
canvases that took her fifteen years to complete. With her characteristic “naive” style and
fantastic imagination, she painted the reality of New York life as she knew it at a time when
few artists dared her searing social commentary and ironic wit. Whether describing the comings
and goings of a banker, shopper, art museum visitor, or theater goer, her bold caricatures
illustrate a fast-paced and often counterproductive life style, much of which remains the
same today, some sixty years after its creation.
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