![]() ![]() Signed (by subject, at lower right): William O’Dwyer Signed with estate stamp at lower left) S.J. The Mayor Talks About Our Town New York, he says, is a fine town with fine people and Broadway as just like Main Street Woolf” and La Guardia is, of course, shown working at his desk at City Hall.ĭonated to the Conservancy by the Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc. The drawing is illustrated as “Drawn from life by S.J. This portrait of Mayor La Guardia was executed for use as an illustration in an article written by Woolf himself titled, “The Mayor Talks About Our Town,” in which he states, “New York is a fine town with fine people and Broadway is just like Main Street.” It appeared in the New York Times Magazine, September 30,1945. Woolf also portrayed many of the leading British and European personalities of his time. During this period, he drew from life many major American figures in politics, business, the arts and letters, medicine, and science. Woolf was a preeminent American portrait draftsman working in the 1920s to 1930s up until his death in 1948. Signed (with estate stamp at lower left) S.J. Samuel Johnson Woolf (1880-1948, portrait artist and printmaker)Ĭharcoal and tempera/Chinese white on paper American Scenery: The Art of John and John William Hill. The Hudson River Portfolio enjoyed an enthusiastic reception and stimulated the demand for topographical views while establishing a standard of artistic and technical achievement by which later work could be judged. Hill’s seemingly effortless technique does much to impart the freshness and fluidity of the originals. Alterations from the watercolors are minor, made largely for the sake of clarity and greater definition. He remained faithful to Guy’s amalgam of picturesque convention and topographical accuracy. John Hill engraved 16 plates and completed four begun by another engraver, John Rubens Smith. Overall, the Hudson River Portfolio consists of 20 large aquatints of views of the Hudson after watercolors by the Irish artist William Guy (1792-1864). Their work as seen in those six aquatints evokes a sense of time and places that remain as vivid as today as a century and a half ago. Drawn to America ’s vast so-called wilderness and to its bustling young cities, the Hills were among the first artists to document these aspects of the “American Scene.” They also played a key role in the development of the topographical print in this country. Thousands of others savored the thrill of discovery from the published accounts and printed images of artists such as John Hill, an English engraver, and his son John William Hill, a draftsman. Hardy souls-encouraged by the advances in transportation-scoured the globe in search of the beautiful and unusual. The 19 th century public took delight in an expanding world. The Junction of Sacandaga and Hudson Rivers ![]()
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