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Alfred Statler

This 1940s painting by Alfred Statler features a bustling rush-hour NYC Subway commute envisioned almost as modern dance.

Rush Hour NYC Subway Commute

Artist: Alfred Statler

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: Alfred Statler, new york city, NYC, regionalist, Subway, WPA
Added to Gallery: February 8, 2021

In this haunting, surreal oil on canvas painting, a train platform rises above assembled automobiles that are parked below a bridge in this transportation minded urban cityscape. At the top, a seemingly living cathedral rises into the night. Captured with oils on canvas in a dark haunting color palette, the dramatic impasto technique is impressive and everything […]

The Night Cathedral

Artist: Alfred Statler

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Alfred Statler, Andy Warhol, modernist, new york city, regionalist, Subway Cars, Urbanism, WPA
Added to Gallery: June 19, 2018

A sleepy NYC cityscape scene is captured with oils on canvas-board in a dark color palette in this work by Alfred Statler dating to 1946.

New York Cityscape At Night

Artist: Alfred Statler

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Alfred Statler, automobilia, Cityscape, regionalist, Time Magazine, Urban, WPA
Added to Gallery: September 1, 2017

From a recent east coast estate auction,  Grapefruit Moon Gallery is delighted to have acquired a previously unseen collection of American Impressionist oil paintings dating to the 1940s and executed in a WPA, Regionalist, and often times stark Ashcan School design aesthetic. These are the work of the important American photo-journalist Alfred Statler, who was […]

New York City Crossing Street Light

Artist: Alfred Statler

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Alfred Statler, Ashcan School, new york city, NYC, regionalist, Time Magazine, Urban, WPA
Added to Gallery: September 1, 2016

From a recent east coast estate auction, Grapefruit Moon Gallery is delighted to have acquired a previously unseen collection of American Impressionist oil paintings dating to the 1940s and executed in a WPA, Regionalist, and often times stark Ashcan School design aesthetic. These are the work of the important American photo-journalist Alfred Statler, who was […]

Runaway Train

Artist: Alfred Statler

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Alfred Statler, new york city, regionalist, Time Magazine, Trains, WPA
Added to Gallery: May 25, 2016

  From a recent east coast estate auction, Grapefruit Moon Gallery is delighted to have acquired a previously unseen collection of American Impressionist oil paintings dating to the 1940s and executed in a WPA, Regionalist, and often times stark Ashcan School design aesthetic. These are the work of the important American photo-journalist Alfred Statler, who […]

Train Platform At Night

Artist: Alfred Statler

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Alfred Statler, american, art deco, Ashcan School, machine age, modernism, new york city, regionalist, WPA
Added to Gallery: April 3, 2016

    From a recent east coast estate auction, Grapefruit Moon Gallery is delighted to have acquired a previously unseen collection of American Expressionist oil paintings dating to the 1940s and executed in a WPA, Regionalist, and often times stark Ashcan School design aesthetic. These are the work of the important American photo-journalist Alfred Statler, […]

Cityscape of Cars

Artist: Alfred Statler

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Alfred Statler, american, American Impressionist, automobilia, industrial age, machine age, new york city, regionalist, WPA
Added to Gallery: April 4, 2014

 

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