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Bronx River and County Center, White Plains is a scenic oil painting overlooking the eponymous landmarks the title suggests. Jumping past the absence of a foreground into the middle ground, half of the painting’s composition is taken up by billowing,…

A tree serves as the central focus for this piece, dividing the left and right of the portions of Alshets’ painting. Its setting is Crotona Park, in the Bronx. The narrower left side of the painting shows a road going into the distance and vanishing;…

Witten’s still-life painting depicts a vase of gladioli flowers with a framed nude portrait set next to and slightly behind the vase. The exact year of production is unknown, like much of Witten’s personal history. The flowers are bright red and…

Anchel’s lithograph depicts a large balcony appearing to be located in a theater. Figures stand above and below it, all in groups except for one. Most of the figures hold happy or neutral expressions, whereas the lone figure is almost brooding. He…

Several people gather Christmas trees in a snowy, urban setting. The foreground includes two men, a woman and a baby, a young child, and (incongruously) a cat all gathered around a pile of Christmas trees. In the background we see a butcher at work,…

In Autumn Landscape, at first glance, the viewer appears to be standing on a riverbank, looking into a dense and active landscape. The foreground is filled with thick foliage, where leaves are depicted through repeating oval shapes and emphasized…

A large and elegant boat dominates this scene, immediately drawing the viewer’s attention. Those few people visible in Jacks' print, scattered around the docks, appear almost ghost-like, as if incorporated into the backdrop. Their small number and…

We witness a body in pain through a narrowly focused, irregular aperature. The setting, it's implied, is some kind of institutional hospital or sanatorium: a thin mattress upon a spartan bedframe; garments stripped of pattern or individuality.…

We behold an arch bridge under construction in a seemingly non-urban setting, its steel ribs elevated over gray flowing water underneath—perhaps indicating that a large boat has just passed underneath. The area surrounding the bridge contains greens…

From an elevated perspective we look into a pleasingly enclosed, bowl-shaped valley; agricultural plantings emphasize the land’s underlaying contours. An arboreal line runs diagonally across the property. In the middle ground, a small house and…