The Flatiron Building
Artist
Joseph Pennell
(American, 1860 - 1926)
Date1904
MediumEtching
DimensionsOverall: 11 3/4 × 8 7/16 inches (29.85 × 21.39 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Frances M. Logan
Object number53-51/79
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Gallery LabelThe Flatiron Building was one of the first skyscrapers built in New York City. This view of the building intersecting two streets is similar to the views of Paris described by the French Impressionists. Gustave Caillebotte painted Georges Eugéne Haussmann’s new boulevards in a similarly abrupt way, perhaps critical of urban progress and the alienation it brought in its wake.
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