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East River
Accession # 39.417
Artist John Koch
Title East River
Date ca. 1930
Medium Oil on panel
Dimensions 15 7/8 × 19 7/8 in. (40.3 × 50.5 cm) frame: 23 × 27 × 2 1/2 in. (58.4 × 68.6 × 6.4 cm)
Signed Signed lower right: "Koch"
Credit Line Gift of Friends of Southern Vermont Artists, Inc.
Location Visible Storage: Case 15, Screen I (Paintings)
Description Depicts the East River looking toward Brooklyn from Koch's home/studio at 865 First Avenue in Manhattan. The location in the foreground is now the site of the United Nations building. In a 1966 interview (see transcript in object file), Koch notes that some of the smokestacks belonged to a Con Edison building.