New York Street Scene
This watercolor shows George Grosz’s fascination with the theatrical spectacle of bright, neon-lit shops signs in Manhattan streets at night, something he would not have seen in his native Berlin. Arranged as a stage set, the buildings’ facades feature signs for ATHENS STEAKS CHOPS, and a large dangling foot with the letters A.WARD CHIROPODIST, next to a large vertical board offering LOANS. In the near and far distance loom water tanks and skyscrapers.
Artwork Details
- Title: New York Street Scene
- Artist: George Grosz (American (born Germany), Berlin 1893–1959 Berlin)
- Date: 1934
- Medium: Watercolor and brush and black ink on paper
- Dimensions: 26 1/4 × 19 in. (66.7 × 48.3 cm)
- Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Purchase, Bequest of Gioconda King, by exchange, 2018
- Object Number: 2018.405
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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