The forgotten painter who captured the contrasting landscapes of 1930 New York City

The Cavalry, Central Park

"By the Depression year of 1930, New York City was increasingly becoming a city of highs and lows. ... The highs were evident in Gotham’s skyline. Elegant residential towers lined the borders of Central Park and the city’s posher avenues. The Chrysler Building rose above 42nd Street, and the Empire State Building and Rockefeller Center soon followed at different ends of Midtown. At odds with these gleaming towers were the lows—the many low-rise blocks across Manhattan. Spread out between their new high-rise neighbors and congregated in poorer, more densely packed areas were tenement buildings, factories, and warehouses, some crumbling with age. ..."

Ephemeral New York

On the Rooftops of New York