Lower Manhattan

Oil - 8 3/4 x 12 1/16"
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This was painted last weekend (the last day of February 2009). It shows the buildings of New York, specifically lower Manhattan, on a late afternoon cloudy, grey day as seen from N 7th Street in Brooklyn, in Williamsburg, across from the East River. I've painted from this vantage point for nearly twenty years, it was once an abandoned lot where I would paint to my heart's content at sunset but it has now become a city park where you're told to leave before sunset, such is "progress".
The building in the middle section of the painting is a beautiful classical building near 14th Street in Manhattan. I don't know anything about the building besides the fact that it is the most beautiful building in the vicinity and I believe is the home of the New York Sports Clubs. The ascending towers which makes the central focus of the painting, is a power plant located along Avenue C and 14th Street on the East side of Manhattan. A tug boat passes by and city lights are just turning on.
The painting is of the type which James Abbott McNeill Whistler and William Merritt Chase made of waterways in gray light with an overall unifying grey tonality, in fact Chase lived in Brooklyn and is known to have also made studies of the East River.
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