Allen Street El — Mid-Century Modernism, New York City

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Bernard Brussel-Smith
Allen Street El — Mid-Century Modernism, New York City
1941

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Bernard Brussel-Smith, 'Allen Street El', chiaroscuro wood engraving, 1941, edition 140. Signed, titled, and numbered '84/140' in pencil. Signed and dated in the block, upper right. A fine impression, on cream, wove paper, with full margins (2 5/8 to 3 1/4 inches), in excellent condition. Image size 4 x 6 1/2 inches; sheet size 10 x 11 1/2 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Reproduced and exhibited: ‘American Scene Prints’, Ball State University Museum of Art, Indiana, 2010. Exhibited: 'Urban America, 1930-1970', RISD Museum, December 1, 2006 - February 25, 2007. "As city populations increased, metropolitan governments responded by broadening infrastructure in the form of light rails, subways, and buses. These additions drastically changed the look of the cityscape while creating new locales where working Americans of all genders, races, and classes traveled together." —from 'Urban America, 1930-1970' an exhibition at Rhode Island School of Design Museum, 2006-2007. Impressions of this work are in the permanent collections of the following institutions: Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, Ball State University Museum of Art, Denver Museum, Fairleigh Dickinson University Friendship Library, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, New-York Historical Society, Yale University Library, ABOUT THE SUBJECT Allen Street is a street in New York City that runs north-south through the Lower Manhattan neighborhood of Chinatown and the Lower East Side. One block over, the Allen Street portion of the Second Avenue El was built in 1878 and opened in 1880. The Allen Street El, which rumbled from Houston Street to Division Street (near what is today the Manhattan Bridge), was dismantled in 1942. ABOUT THE ARTIST Born in Greenwich Village, New York, Bernard Brussel-Smith studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia (5-year scholarship), and the New School for Social Research, New York. He received a Cresson Traveling Scholarship in 1935 for study abroad. He was elected an Associate Member of the National Academy in 1952, and a Member in 1973. He taught at the Brooklyn Museum, Cooper Union, City College, and the National Academy. Brussel-Smith spent most of his life in the New York area and was widely known for his posters of the New York Auto Show in the 1950s and 60s. He studied with Stanley William Hayter in Paris from 1957 to 1958, developing a form of relief etching inspired by the process used by William Blake. Brussel-Smith, with his wife Mildred and son Peter, spent many summers from 1957 to 1980 in Collonges-la-Rouge, France. One-person exhibitions of work by Brussel-Smith include Galerie St. Jacques, Collonges-la-Rouge, France, 1969 and 1970; Musée Ernest-Rupin, Brive, France, 1976; the Olthuysen Ateliers, Rotterdam, Holland, 1978; the Madison de la Siréne, Collonges-la-Rouge, 1979; the Katonah Library, New York; the Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California, 1980; the Galerie Maas, Rotterdam, 1981; and the Bethesda Art Gallery, Maryland, 1982. A retrospective of the artist’s work was held at Fairleigh Dickinson University Library in Madison, New Jersey,1983. In the summer of 1988, the Sterling Library of Yale University mounted an exhibition of the artist’s graphic work to honor his donation of a comprehensive archive of prints and the majority of his blocks. And in 1989, a memorial exhibition was held at the Galerie St. Jacques, Collonges-la-Rouge, France. In addition to the holdings of prints at the Fairleigh Dickinson University Library and the Sterling Library of Yale University, the artist’s graphic work is represented in the permanent collections of the Boston Museum; New York Historical Society; New York Public Library; National Academy of Design, New York; National Museum of American Art; Smithsonian Air and Space Museum; Library of Congress; Hudson River Museum, Yonkers; Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota; Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, Maine; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Philadelphia Free Library; The Oklahoma City Museum; Boymans Museum, Rotterdam; and the Lenin Library, Moscow.

Creator:
Bernard Brussel-Smith (1914 - 1969, American)
Creation Year:
1941
Dimensions:
Height: 4 in (10.16 cm)Width: 6.5 in (16.51 cm)
Medium:
Woodcut
Movement & Style:
American Modern
Period:
1940-1949
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Myrtle Beach, SC
Reference Number:
Seller: 1012741stDibs: LU53236224682