File:Christopher Street, Greenwich Village by Beulah R. Bettersworth.jpg
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Christopher Street, Greenwich Village by Beulah R. Bettersworth. Smithsonian Institution description follows: A wintry corner of Greenwich Village lives in this painting as Beulah Bettersworth knew it when she and her husband inhabited 95 Christopher Street, a block away. Closely observed details draw the viewer into the painting to join Bettersworth's neighbors hurrying through the slushy snow, catching a whiff of tobacco from the cigar store in the foreground. Snow melts from the roof of St. Veronica's Catholic Church, whose towers are visible behind the Ninth Avenue "L" station. The elevated train station had been an elegant adaptation of a Swiss chalet when it was built in 1867, but by Bettersworth’s time it was an aging relic soon to be torn down. Like the rusting "L," the famous bohemian artistic colony that had enlivened Greenwich Village in the early twentieth century faded as the decades passed. Yet artists like Bettersworth still found homes there and with the advent of the Depression, low rents attracted a new generation of poverty-stricken young poets and painters to the Village’s storied garrets. Perhaps the colorful aura of the Village appealed to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who chose this modest canvas to hang in the White House. 1934: A New Deal for Artists exhibition label Beulah Bettersworth lived on Christopher Street in New York's Greenwich Village. She worked for the Works Progress Administration during the Depression, and in this scene she captured the lively block of her street between Hudson and Greenwich avenues. Commuters bundled in winter coats make their way through the snow to catch trains bound for Newark and Hoboken. The steeples of St. Veronica's Catholic Church loom above the chalet-style El station on the Ninth Avenue line, constructed between 1867 and 1879. The elevated trains, the city's original rapid transit system, were displaced by the subway system during the 1930s. They were just beginning to be dismantled when Bettersworth painted this scene, and only six years later the station would be demolished. This canvas was included in a 1934 exhibition of WPA artists held at Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art, where President Roosevelt selected it for display in the White House. It was transferred to the Smithsonian by the National Park Service in 1965. 30 1⁄8 x 24 1⁄4 in. (76.5 x 61.5 cm.) |
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1934 date QS:P571,+1934-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | oil on canvas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions | 30 1⁄8 x 24 1⁄4 in. (76.5 x 61.5 cm.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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institution QS:P195,Q1192305 |
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Accession number |
1965.18.7 |
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Source/Photographer | Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery website |
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This image is a work of the United States Department of the Treasury, taken or made as part of an employee's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain in the United States.
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Short title | 1965.18.7_1.tif |
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Credit/Provider | Smithsonian American Art Museum |
Source | Smithsonian American Art Museum |
Copyright holder | This image was obtained from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The image or its contents may be protected by international copyright laws. |
Image title | Scan from color transparency |
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IIM version | 4 |
Exif version | 2.21 |
Image width | 5,052 px |
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Color space | Uncalibrated |
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Number of components | 3 |
Horizontal resolution | 300 dpi |
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Date and time of digitizing | 07:11, 14 April 2011 |
File change date and time | 09:57, 23 August 2013 |
Date metadata was last modified | 10:34, 23 August 2013 |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop CS4 Macintosh |
Unique ID of original document | xmp.did:A8AB7FBA204111688D4AE07046B38790 |
Contact information |
americanart.si.edu Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C., U.S.A. |