Which “East River Park” is in this 1902 painting?


East River Park, 1902
"When William Glackens painted 'East River Park' in 1902—contrasting the serenity of a city green space with the noisy industrial riverfront—the park that currently stretches along the riverfront called East River Park had yet to be created. So what East River park did he depict here? Perhaps Corlears Hook Park, at the bend where Manhattan tucks under itself between the Williamsburg and Manhattan Bridges? This was certainly a smoggy, ship-choked channel at the turn of the last century. The city purchased land here in the 1880s for the creation of a park, completed in 1905. Neighboring East River Park didn’t exist until the 1930s, and according to the Brooklyn Museum, which owns the painting, a label on it indicates that the Brooklyn waterfront is depicted. ..."
Ephemeral New York

2015 April: Ashcan School, 2015 October: Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York, 1897-1917, 2016 June: "Crowd at the Seashore," 1910

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