1911, Leon Kroll, Brooklyn Bridge -- Baltimore Museum of Art
From the museum label: Soon after its opening in 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge became an icon of urban modernism in painting, printmaking, literature, and even film. Leon Kroll, returning to New York in 1910 from studies in Paris, undertook paintings of the urban scene that incorporate the bold brushwork and saturated local colors of French Postimpressionism. Working outdoors, he faced west toward Manhattan. Kroll later recalled, "I used to go down to a place over in Brooklyn, right under the bridge, where they collect ashes and garbage and all kinds of things on the dock; the street-cleaners have a little shack there in which they keep their tools." He befriended the workmen "during the quite cold days" so "they used to let me keep my picture in their shack. I painted three pictures of the Bridge from that point."
1911, Leon Kroll, Brooklyn Bridge -- Baltimore Museum of Art
From the museum label: Soon after its opening in 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge became an icon of urban modernism in painting, printmaking, literature, and even film. Leon Kroll, returning to New York in 1910 from studies in Paris, undertook paintings of the urban scene that incorporate the bold brushwork and saturated local colors of French Postimpressionism. Working outdoors, he faced west toward Manhattan. Kroll later recalled, "I used to go down to a place over in Brooklyn, right under the bridge, where they collect ashes and garbage and all kinds of things on the dock; the street-cleaners have a little shack there in which they keep their tools." He befriended the workmen "during the quite cold days" so "they used to let me keep my picture in their shack. I painted three pictures of the Bridge from that point."