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Cathedrals of Fifth Avenue, 1931–32 Florine Stettheimer (American, 18711944) Oil on canvas; 60 1/8 x 50 1/8 in. (152.7 x 127.3 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Gift of Ettie Stettheimer, 1953 (53.24.3) |
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Ironic Commentary
Stettheimer thought marriage to be a convention of commerce designed to benefit the husband, not the wife. The Cathedrals of Fifth Avenue is both a strong criticism of the institution of marriage and of rampant consumerism, especially the kind that high society displays in honor of such nuptials. New York's Fifth Avenue is transformed into a kind of paradise of shopping in which the most prestigious names of the day—Altman's department store, Maillard chocolates, Delmonico's restaurant, Tiffany jewelry, Bendel clothing—float in the clouds above the church like gigantic Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons. << Back |
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