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Coney Island<\/em>, 1940s, an oil-on-board painting by Ludwig Bemelmans<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

When Ludwig Bemelmans<\/a> drew the charming illustrations for his classic 1939 children\u2019s book Madeline<\/em>, he made the setting \u2014 Paris \u2014 a main character, second only to the little girl of the title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each day, Madeline and her 11 boarding-school pals venture out with their nun caretaker, Miss Clavel, \u201cat half past nine \/ in two straight lines \/ in rain \/ or shine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As they trundle through the city, we glimpse behind them the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre<\/a>, the Place Vend\u00f4me, the Tuileries Garden, Notre-Dame and other Paris landmarks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A similar obsession with place comes through in Bemelmans\u2019s oil-on-board painting of Coney Island at night<\/a>, from the 1940s. In it, the artist enthusiastically depicts the Brooklyn seaside destination\u2019s Cyclone roller coaster, Wonder Wheel ferris wheel, Parachute Jump ride and boardwalk \u2014 nostalgic attractions that still stand on Coney Island<\/a> today.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A close-up view of the Cyclone roller coaster and Parachute Jump ride from Bemelmans<\/a>\u2019s Coney Island painting<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

In fact, given that the dozens of peachy ovals representing heads have no faces, we sense that the place itself is the real subject of the painting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The marks on the board appear unbound and impressionistic, making the frenetic motions of the rides and attendees palpable. \u201cI sketch with facility and speed,\u201d Bemelmans once wrote. \u201cThe drawing has to sit on the paper as if you smacked a spoon of whipped cream on a plate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while the oil painting surely took him longer to assemble than a sundae, we can sense the swiftness of his brushwork in the loose curves of the Cyclone tracks and the dizzying spin of the Tilt-A-Whirl.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Ludwig
In a 1942 photograph for House and Garden<\/em> magazine, Bemelmans lounges on a leopard-print sofa<\/a> with his dog, Toots, while his young daughter, Barbara, sits beneath an Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec<\/a> poster, in their apartment on Manhattan’s Gramercy Park. Photo by Walter Sanders\/Cond\u00e9 Nast via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Surrounding the whole scene is a silvery wooden frame with a deep linear grain. \u201cWhen the artist\u2019s grandson saw the painting, he immediately remarked about the frame, as he knew the style from many of his grandfather\u2019s works,\u201d says Keith Sherman, cofounder of Helicline Fine Art<\/a>, which represents the piece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ludwig Bemelmans was born in Merano, Austria-Hungary<\/a> (today part of Italy), in 1898 to a Belgian painter-hotelier father and a German mother. As a teen, he apprenticed in the hotel restaurant of his uncle, who soon shipped Ludwig to the United States because of the young fellow\u2019s incorrigibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There, Bemelmans joined the U.S. Army and after a string of hotel and restaurant jobs, worked his way up from busboy to banquet manager at New York\u2019s Ritz-Carlton<\/a>, where he secretly drew pictures in newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst\u2019s unoccupied suite.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A scene on the River Seine from Madeline and the Bad Hat,<\/em> 1958. Photo courtesy of Viking Books for Young Readers<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Bemelmans dreamed of being a cartoonist \u2014 he even had a comic strip called \u201cCount Bric-a-Brac\u201d that ran for six months in New York World<\/em> magazine in 1926 \u2014 until \u200b\u200bMay Massee, an acquaintance who was an editor at Viking Press, convinced him to write and illustrate children\u2019s books<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout the 1930s, he published a string of books for kids, including the Newbery Honor\u2013winning The Golden Basket<\/em> (1936), which took place in Belgium, where he\u2019d honeymooned with his wife Madeleine \u201cMimi\u201d Freund. The story introduced, in passing, a dozen young boarding-school girls on a stroll with their nun caretaker. The author would later expand on those characters in Madeline<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beyond authoring children\u2019s books, Bemelmans, a world traveler and bon vivant, decorated interiors and theater sets; wrote novels, screenplays and journalism; illustrated magazine covers, advertisements and signs; mounted gallery shows; and painted numerous whimsical murals, including, most famously, at Bemelmans Bar (named for him since its opening) of the Carlyle Hotel<\/a> on Manhattan\u2019s upper East Side.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The wall and lampshades in Bemelmans Bar, at the Carlyle Hotel, are decorated with fanciful scenes by Bemelmans portraying the four seasons in a New York City populated by Madeline and other unusual characters. Photo by Durston Saylor<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

\u201cClearly, in the late 1940s, Bemelmans was in a New York City frame of mind,\u201d Sherman says. \u201cThe artist painted the interior of the bar with murals depicting the seasons in Central Park, with Madeline. The bar opened in 1947, about the same year that the Coney Island painting was created and a year before Bemelmans\u2019s July 3, 1948, New Yorker<\/em> magazine cover<\/a> depicting Coney Island \u2014 with an astonishingly similar rendering of the Cyclone roller coaster \u2014 was published.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was an era of great buoyancy and growing prosperity in the U.S. The German and Japanese empires had been defeated, and soldiers were swarming back home to find peacetime jobs, have fun and make babies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coney Island offered free admission and discounts to the military throughout the 1940s. And \u201cthe expansion of the New York City subway system later in the \u201940s made Coney Island more accessible than ever, turning it into a true People\u2019s Playground,\u201d says Sherman, mentioning the area\u2019s longtime nickname.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was a moment of optimism<\/a>,\u201d he adds, \u201cand this painting exudes the joy of escape, the thrill of a roller coaster and a day at the beach.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t

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