East River from the Shelton Hotel
The Shelton Hotel opened in midtown Manhattan in 1924 as the tallest hotel in the world. O’Keeffe, who lived in the Shelton between 1925 and 1936, took advantage of the bird’s-eye view from her apartment on the thirtieth floor to capture this panoramic, aerial view of the East River waterfront, looking across to Long Island City, Queens. Rendered in dull tones and pictured with factory stacks belching filthy smoke into the air, the hazy composition presents an inhospitable, industrial landscape that betrays the painter’s increasing dissatisfaction with modern urban life.
Artwork Details
- Title: East River from the Shelton Hotel
- Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe (American, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin 1887–1986 Santa Fe, New Mexico)
- Date: 1928
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 12 × 32 in. (30.5 × 81.3 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection, Bequest of Georgia O'Keeffe, 1986
- Object Number: 1987.377.3
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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