Skip to main content
Advanced Search
Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
59th and Fifth
Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
Held by the artist.

59th and Fifth

Artist/Maker (United States, 1897-1974)
Date1931
Mediumlift-ground and aquatint
DimensionsSight: 8 3/4 x 11 3/8 in. (22.2 x 28.9 cm)
Sheet: 10 3/4 x 13 3/8 in. (27.3 x 34 cm)
ClassificationsVisual Works
Credit LineGift of Dr. Philip Samet
Terms
    Object number66.128.086
    DescriptionBy the 1840s, Manhattan Island had become so overcrowded that it was decided there was a need for an open recreational space. In 1856 architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a contest to design a park; from their collaboration Central Park was created. The 100-plus acre park, bordered on its East side by Fifth Avenue, com-mencing north from 59th Street, incorporated hills, rocky mounds, huge trees, brooks, and lakes in order to provide an oasis of nature within a city gridlocked by cement, stone, and brick. Beyond the grassy expanse of the work's viewpoint, we glimpse the elegant apartment buildings, fashionable retail stores, and luxurious hotels (The Plaza, for one), that lie in close proximity. Typically, the corner of Central Park at 59th Street and Fifth Avenue draws throngs of people on weekends.
    On View
    Not on view
    Collections
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Washington Square
    Everett Shinn
    1931
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Ethiopia
    David Park
    1959
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Dish
    1723-1735
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Columbus Circle
    Berenice Abbott
    1936 (printed 1979)
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Plate
    early 18th century
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Broken Button
    Claes Oldenburg
    1981
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Bowling Green, New York
    Jafir
    1930
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Temple of Amun at Karnak
    Artist Unknown
    late 19th to early 20th century (printed 1992)
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Guatemala Gangs
    Rodrigo Abd
    2003
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Vase
    ca. 1675
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Waterloo Bridge
    Claude Monet
    1903
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Portrait of Dr. George Wood
    Henry Raeburn
    ca. 1785
    eMuseum
    Copyright © eMuseum