A dress shop, furniture and rugs for sale on the sidewalk, a pretzel vendor—there’s a lot happening on bustling Allen Street in George Luks’ 1905 painting of a Lower East Side street.
Tags: Allen Street, American realist painters, Ashcan School, George Luks, Lower East Side life, New York in the 20th century
July 29, 2010 at 1:52 pm |
When we came to America in 1952 we moved into a tenement of 5th Street and Avenue A. My mother quickly found out where to get low priced goods, of course Orchard Street, one block east of Allen. Every week my mother would drag me and my sister to crowded, packed with other shoppers, who thronged Allen, Orchard, Ludlow, Essex Streets. I thought I’d never get out of there and in a way I haven’t.
July 29, 2010 at 5:28 pm |
[...] painting of Allen Street in 1905 [Ephemeral [...]
July 30, 2010 at 4:29 am |
What an amazing piece of history!