![]() But this image shows us a moment in time in the early, more exclusive life of Riverside Drive-more than a century old and lost to the ages. Today’s Riverside Drive is still dramatic and lovely. Landfill would double the park’s size, changing it from a pastoral English-style park with a bridle path to the kind of playground-packed accessible green space in favor today. In the 1930s, the railroad tracks between Riverside Park and the Hudson River would be sunk underground. ![]() Within a generation, the Riverside Drive born in the Gilded Age and meant to be the city’s new “millionaire colony” would mostly be torn down and replaced by the line of tall apartment buildings still standing today. North of the Schwab mansion are dozens of Queen Anne and Beaux-Arts townhouses, separate homes joined together to form a palace-or a fortress.īut nothing ever stays the same in New York. This is the 86-room Schwab mansion, built in 1906 for steel magnate Charles Schwab. High above the Hudson River is a spectacular chateau-like mansion taking up an entire block. Posted in art, Brooklyn, Lower East Side, Lower Manhattan, Music, art, theater | 8 Comments » Tags: Brooklyn Bridge Paintings 1900s, Jonas Lie Brooklyn, Jonas Lie Morning on the River, Jonas Lie New York City, Jonas Lie Painter, New York Waterfront 1900s ![]() It’s a captivating, moody painting, and my eye is drawn to the orange glow in the center, perhaps a furnace burning coal or wood for industrial use or to keep the working men warm. “The modern cityscape has replaced the untamed wilderness as a symbol of America’s progress.” “Jonas Lie’s dramatic portrayal juxtaposes the powerful bulk of the bridge with the brilliant morning light reflecting off the icy East River in a drama of humankind versus nature,” states the University of Rochester in a separate document that goes into greater detail. In this 1912 depiction of the riverfront-a place bustling with energy but no human faces in view-Lie “captures the new American landscape of industry and technology,” states Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, which owns the painting. Lie was a Norwegian immigrant known for his Impressionist paintings of harbors and coastlines in the early 20th century. ![]() Jonas Lie’s “Morning on the River” puts the gritty, smoky East River of old back into view. ![]()
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