The Artist Historical perspective

This week you will look at Paintings and photographs of New York either from our visit at the City Museum of New York or from  Hassam impressions of New York City on our website. Check your reading list for the Historical Perspectives Topic.  You will then go to the field (i.e. New York City streets) and find the spot where the artist stood to paint the picture. You will take a photograph with your camera, your phone, or your computer and post it on the web along side the original painting and explain to us why the two match. You may use what you learned about perspective such as the distance, size of the object, vanishing points, and also your forensic knowledge, in reconstructing the past in a new modern environment. If the paintings on this site do not appeal to you, you may go to another museum and take a picture of another painting you wanted to research.

The physical locations of the paintings by Hassam are:

At the Metropolitan museum: (There are 2 on the second floor in the America wing)

http://www.metmuseum.org/search/iquery.asp

At the City of New York Museum:

http://www.mcny.org/shop/76/202/7865/bethesda-fountain-central-park.html

At New York Historical society:

http://emuseum.nyhistory.org

You can also consult a book

Hassam’s New York by Ilene Susan Fort  see the pictures in our Gallery .

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