Cortland St. 9th Ave El by Mark Freeman
Cortland St. 9th Ave El
Mark Freeman
Title
Cortland St. 9th Ave El
Artist
Mark Freeman
1908 - 2003 (biography)Year
1930
Technique
lithograph
Image Size
10 x 7 7/8" image size
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
a/p
Annotations
pencil titled, dated, and editioned
Reference
Paper
ivory wove
State
published
Publisher
artist
Inventory ID
24356
Price
$600.00
Description
A Modernist, regionalist image depicting the Cortland St./9th Avenue El train station in New York, NY. As evidenced in this lithiograph, Freeman was especially known for his dramatic New York cityscapes that utilized heavy contrast to convey architectural grandness. This station was built in 1918; in 1976 it was renovated and renamed the Cortland St./World Trade Center station.
This image has incidentally become an historic record of New York, as the portion of the railway that this station connected to ran beneath what would become the World Trade Center. It was damaged beyond repair in the collapse of the twin towers and was demolished and completely removed by early 2002.