View of Lower Manhattan
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
Upon returning to the U.S. from four years in Paris, I found a studio on Columbia Heights in Brooklyn. It had a rear garden from which I could see the grand bridge majestically spanning the East River to the distant cluster of towering buildings of lower Manhattan. The assortment of visual elements was extremely rich . . . the astonishing structure of the bridge itself, the varied shapes and architectural styles of the soaring buildings, the river traffic, the streets paved with cobble stones, brick walls and archways, steps and streetcar tracks and overhead, banks of cumulous clouds. . . . The challenge was to organize all this seductive material into a coherent structure. My efforts at the time clearly reflected my immersion with the cubist development.
Caption
Herzl Emanuel (American, 1914–2002). View of Lower Manhattan, modeled 1937; cast 1990. Bronze, 8 1/4 x 23 13/16 x 1 1/4in. (21 x 60.5 x 3.2cm) Dims and weight with unvitrined backing: 15 1/2 × 31 × 3 in., 34 lb. (39.4 × 78.7 × 7.6 cm, 15.42kg). Brooklyn Museum, Purchase gift of The Richard Florsheim Art Fund, 1996.186. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
View of Lower Manhattan
Date
modeled 1937; cast 1990
Medium
Bronze
Classification
Dimensions
8 1/4 x 23 13/16 x 1 1/4in. (21 x 60.5 x 3.2cm) Dims and weight with unvitrined backing: 15 1/2 × 31 × 3 in., 34 lb. (39.4 × 78.7 × 7.6 cm, 15.42kg)
Signatures
Inscribed in lower left corner: "EMANUEL '37"; and along bottom edge at right: "EMANUEL [incised] 5/6 [stamped] '37 [incised]"
Credit Line
Purchase gift of The Richard Florsheim Art Fund
Accession Number
1996.186
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