“Saul Kovner was a Russia-born artist who came to New York City in the 1920s. After attending the National Academy of Design and setting up a studio on Central Park West, he worked for the WPA in the 1930s and 1940s. Kovner captured gentle yet honest scenes in all seasons of urban life, particularly of working class and poor New Yorkers. In 1946, he completed ‘One Summer Night,’ a richly detailed depiction of tenement dwellers seeking refuge from the heat in a pre- air conditioned city. ... Here’s how John Sloan, Everett Shinn, and some wonderful unidentified illustrators captured the ‘fiery furnace’ of a New York heat wave. ...”
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