A New York painter creates “order against chaos”

“Morning in Brooklyn,” 1929
"George Copeland Ault’s still, ordered paintings of New York City in the 1920s and early 1930s look deceptively simplistic. Known for depicting landscapes and cityscapes in “simple lines and vivid color,” as Smithsonian magazine put it, Ault was considered a Precisionist painter—his work was informed by realism yet emphasized the geometrical forms of his subjects. But his work is more than tightly controlled stillness and smoothed-out lines. Painting was Ault’s way of creating 'order against chaos,' his wife later told an interviewer in The Magazine Antiques. ..."
Ephemeral New York
W - George Ault
Smithsonian American Art Museum

“From Brooklyn Heights”