City Street by Stow Wengenroth
City Street
Stow Wengenroth
Title
City Street
Artist
Stow Wengenroth
1906 - 1978 (biography)Year
1933
Technique
lithograph
Image Size
12 1/2 x 9 11/16" image size
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
unnumbered, from an edition of 25
Annotations
Reference
Stuckey 36
Paper
cream wove
State
published
Publisher
artist
Inventory ID
22865
Price
$2,500.00
Description
Wengenroth views the Brooklyn, New York street from a window and through an ornate, wraught-iron fire escape. The entrance stoops for the brick and wooden apartment buildings are visible in the street below. The fall sky is dark and a storm seems to be brewing. It is the Depression and no human figures are visible, the overall effect being a sense of calm and a sense of alienation.
Off to the right is a rooftop garden, a subject he had used in another lithograph, done in September of 1933, titled "Roof Garden".
Stuckey notes in the catalogue raisonné, "Drawing made looking out window of apartment at 139 MacDougal Street, Brooklyn. ...October, 1933." The location is located between Saratoga Avenue and Thomas S. Boyland St.