New York Street
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Theresa Bernstein
(Kraków, Poland, 1890–New York, New York, 2002)
NationalityAmerican, North America
Datecirca 1913
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsFramed: 33 3/8 x 29 3/8 x 3 in. (84.8 x 74.6 x 7.6 cm)
Canvas: 24 x 20 1/16 in. (61 x 50.9 cm)
Canvas: 24 x 20 1/16 in. (61 x 50.9 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Girard Jackson, 1996.231
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Rights Statement
Collection AreaModern and Contemporary Art
Object number1996.231
On View
Not on viewBeneath a dramatic, darkening sky, bundled figures move through a typical scene of daily New York life. Painted early in her astonishing ninety-year career, New York Street exemplifies Theresa Bernstein's brand of modernism with dramatic lines and sketchily-executed forms. One of the New York Realists, along with husband William Meyerowitz, Bernstein frequently painted images from city life in her adopted home of Manhattan.
Exhibitions
Kenji Nakahashi
1984; printed 1992
