“Ashcan school painter Everett Shinn gravitated toward New York’s underdogs: the lonely, the lost, the dreamers, and those who appear to be battered by life’s elements. This food vendor pushing his flimsy wood cart during the holiday season appears to fall into the latter category. Painted in 1904, ‘Fourteenth Street at Christmas Time’ gives us a blustery, snowy street crowded with Christmas tree buyers and other shoppers beside the lights from store window displays. Our vendor, however, stands away from everyone, his body crouched to avoid the frightful weather. His cart glows with the warmth of hot food cooking…but he has no buyers.”
2017 January: 34th Street (1903), 2019 September: The fantasy of window shopping in New York City
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