There’s a moody blue-black sky over the lower end of a smoke-choked East River in this painting, “Night, East River, New York,” by Danish-born Impressionist and New York transplant Johann Berthelsen.
Streaks of flickering light from the Brooklyn side illuminate the tugboat, the bridge, and the belching smokestacks of a long-gone industrial city.
Tags: East River at night, East River painting, Johann Berthelsen, New York impressionist painters, New York in the 1930s, New York painters, tugboat East River
January 20, 2013 at 1:57 am |
that’s splendid.
i’d never heard of berthelsen, thanks for another discovery!
January 20, 2013 at 4:08 pm |
Wow, wow, wow… I’d never heard of him either, and his work is incredible!
January 20, 2013 at 11:48 pm |
He’s new to me too!