Yellow Cab
9 x 12 Oil on linenNew York is like a visual candy store for me. It seems that every street is full of treats. Among my favorite objects to look for are bright yellow cabs, fire escape ladders, and water towers.
New York is like a visual candy store for me. It seems that every street is full of treats. Among my favorite objects to look for are bright yellow cabs, fire escape ladders, and water towers.
New York, the city of steel. Girders and tresses, stacked over time as the needs of the city grew. Above it all, the light penetrates down into the depths, leaving an interesting play on light and shadow.
The West Side has many nameless buildings, just like this one. Here, a fine example of what makes up the structural backbone of New York is posing on wintery January morning. There is beauty in how the complex structures of the city looked against the remarkably plain but stormy sky that day.
Whenever I go to New York I am fascinated by her bridges, both large and small. Here, a ways out from the city, on a cloudy summer afternoon is one of the many rail bridges across the Hackensack River in New Jersey.
Crossing II was selected by California Art Club to be in their 106th Gold Medal Exhibition.
Water towers are everywhere in NYC if that is what you are looking for. I especially enjoyed this one, perched atop an apartment building in the Morningside area, basking in the warm yellow glow of a late New York afternoon.
Clipping along through the New Jersey landscape, just 8 minutes away from Penn Station aboard Amtrak's northbound Southern Crescent, you are about to tunnel under the Hudson River before completing your long journey from The Big Easy to the Big Apple. It looks cold out there on this winter afternoon, but who goes to New York for the weather?