Pennsylvania Avenue
Artist:
Colin Campbell Cooper
(American, 1856 - 1937)
Place made:United States
Date: 1903
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
h. 21 in. (53.3 cm); w. 25 1/2 in. (64.8 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Frederick Carl Groos, Gretchen R. Groos, and Lieschen G. Gray in memory of Edward Cowen Connor, Jane Connor Groos, and Martha Bailey Groos
Object number: 2016.25
Signed: Signed and dated, lower proper left: Colin Campbell Cooper
Label Text
This painting showcases a bird’s-eye view of Washington DC’s Pennsylvania Avenue, Northwest, at the intersection of Tenth and D Streets. Light and shadows play across the characteristic red-brick architecture of turn-of-the-twentieth-century Washington, contrasting with the stark white Capitol Building, rising in the distance at the end of the avenue.
Cooper gained fame in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for urban views of the Northeast and mid-Atlantic United States, such as this. Later in life, he recorded the missions, gardens, and villas of California, where he eventually settled.
(William Keyse Rudolph, 2016)
Cooper gained fame in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for urban views of the Northeast and mid-Atlantic United States, such as this. Later in life, he recorded the missions, gardens, and villas of California, where he eventually settled.
(William Keyse Rudolph, 2016)
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