20 UMMA Objects
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Night view of New York City skyscrapers seen from above.
Berenice Abbott (American (North American))
New York at Night
1932
Museum purchase made possible by a gift from Helmut Stern and the Jean Paul Slusser Memorial Fund
2002/1.156
This print shows an image of a portion of a skyscraper building. The building has alternating rows of light and dark grey-blue windows, which fade into shades of purple towards the top. In the background, orange and yellow sky with grey clouds is visible and a small smoke stack can be seen in the distance. The print is numbered (l.l.) "7/20" and signed (l.r.) "leJeune" in pencil.
Philippe LeJeune (French (culture or style))
Image
1985
Gift of Claire Spitler
1986/2.64.4
Teeming with meticulously recorded detail, this print depicts a massive construction site in the midst of a city. The large hole of the site consumes the majority of the lower two-thirds of the image; the upper portion consists of roads and buildings. Scaffolding and building materials extrude from the site into the air. <br />
Signed on plate, recto, l.r.: "Muirhead Bone"<br />
Signed below platemark, recto, in pencil: "Muirhead Bone".
Sir Muirhead Bone (British (modern))
Manhattan Excavation
1923 – 1928
Museum purchase made possible by the Jean Paul Slusser Memorial Fund
1988/2.23
An oil painting of New York City skyscrapers. A water tower is visible over the top of a building on the left.
Emilio Sanchez
New York Sky Some Clouds
1975 – 1985
Gift of the Emilio Sanchez Foundation
2011/2.136
View down at 7th Avenue, looking north, from the 46-story Nelson Tower at 450 Seventh Avenue.
Berenice Abbott (American (North American))
Seventh Avenue Looking North from 35th Street, Manhattan
1935 – 1939
Gift of Ellen and William Kahn
2008/2.272
This screenprint in blue on green has a series of overlapping patterns of rectangles in a grid.
Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (British (modern))
Notes on the organisation of Paradise
1965 – 1970
Gift of Professor Diane M. Kirkpatrick
2000/2.14.33
Twilight scene of two buildings illuminated with artificial light. Taken from a low perspective looking up at the buildings from the ground.
Joel Meyerowitz (American (North American))
Atlanta
1988
Gift of Thomas Wilson '79 and Jill Garling '80
2012/2.126
Elevated view down on a spire of a church in front of two tall office buildings.
Berenice Abbott (American (North American))
Trinity Church
1935 – 1938
Gift of Harry H. Lunn Jr.
1989/1.72
An oil painting of New York City skyscrapers in neutral colors. Dark clouds hang in the sky.
Emilio Sanchez
Untitled, New York Skies
1975 – 1985
Gift of the Emilio Sanchez Foundation
2011/2.138
A sunset cityscape view with the sun right above the high-rise buiildings in New York City.
Emilio Sanchez
Nueva York
1972 – 1982
Gift of the Emilio Sanchez Foundation
2011/2.81
Photograph depicts scene of downtown Saint Louis with a small part of the famous Gateway Arch visible just right of the center of the image.
Joel Meyerowitz (American (North American))
Downtown Saint Louis
1978
Gift of Thomas Wilson '79 and Jill Garling '80
2012/2.127
A view looking up between multiple skyscrapers. As the buildings are all reflective, they highlight eachother.
Louis Stettner
Manhattan (Building Reflections)
1994
Gift of Thomas Wilson '79 and Jill Garling '80
2012/2.157
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