Painter George Bellows captured early 20th century New York’s lovelier moments: a blanket of bluish snow over the Battery, a girl’s enchantment with Gramercy Park, and carefree boys swimming off an East River pier.
But this social realist also cast his eye on the city’s grittier scenes. “Men of the Docks,” completed in 1912, is one of those—showing us a group of men literally pushed to the margins of Brooklyn, where they’ve gathered on a raw morning at an East River pier and face uncertainty.
These day laborers, “await jobs on the docks of Brooklyn on a grey winter morning. The towers of Lower Manhattan rise in the distance,” states London’s National Gallery, where the painting hangs.
Tags: Brooklyn Docks 1900s, George Bellows Ashcan School, George Bellows in New York City, George Bellows Social Realist, Men of the Docks George Bellows, Paintings New York early 1900s
Ephemeral New York 
February 25, 2019 at 11:56 am |
You never start a sentence with And or But…….
February 25, 2019 at 12:44 pm |
“Rules are made for the guidance of wise men, and the obedience of fools.”
February 25, 2019 at 2:03 pm
Here here, you tell ’em!
February 25, 2019 at 3:36 pm
!!!
February 28, 2019 at 10:59 pm
I like little quotes like that, may I have another?
February 28, 2019 at 10:57 pm |
I do that all the time in the body of my letters. It keeps my sentences from running on and on. But I never start a paragraph that way.
February 26, 2019 at 5:22 pm |
In think the hiring system was called” shaping up” hiring was done at a foreman discretion , These were grim times with tough endings.
February 28, 2019 at 10:54 pm |
The painting of the ‘Docks’ reminds me of the movie “On the Waterfront”
March 1, 2019 at 3:54 am |
Me too