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On Columbia Heights
Accession # 54.26
Artist Isabel Lydia Whitney
Title On Columbia Heights
Date 1927-1928
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 18 x 24 1/4 x 7/8 in. (45.7 x 61.6 x 2.2 cm) frame: 22 × 27 × 2 in. (55.9 × 68.6 × 5.1 cm)
Inscriptions In pencil, bottom tacking edge: "I L Whitney"
Signed Signed lower right, grey paint: "Isabel Whitney"
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. James H. Hayes
Location Visible Storage: Case 16, Screen F (Paintings)
Description Brooklyn Heights circa 1927. Victorian iron three-tiered fountain playing in very early spring. Misty view of Manhattan, with smoke stack of the ill-fated steamer "Vestris" seen beyond roofs of old red warehouses.