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A Few Sketches of Weehawken - 1926
Sketchbook of Weehawken by artist, Grant Wright, dated 1926. This is the earliest sketchbook in the Commission's collection.
Tags: Art, History, Miscellany
A Few Sketches of Weehawken - 1933
Sketchbook of artist, Grant Wright, dated 1933.
Tags: Art, History, Miscellany
A Few Sketches of Weehawken - 1934
Weehawken Sketches by artist, Grant Wright, dated 1934.
Tags: Art, History, Miscellany
East Wind Over Weehawken - Edward Hopper
Painting of houses on Boulevard East (at 49th Street) by Edward Hopper (1882-1967). Oil on canvas and 34 x 50 inches, painted in 1934. The painting was held in the collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in the United States from 1954…
Grant Wright's Weehawken Sketches - 1933
Sketches of Weehawken in 1933, by artist Grant Wright.
Tags: Art, History, Miscellany
John Marin - Weehawken Sequence Number 30
Artist John Marin painted a series of abstract representations of the Weehawken waterfront in 1903-1904. These oil on board paintings made up his Weehawken Sequence and were based on views from around his grandparents' Weehawken home. Thanks to…
Tags: Art, Waterfront
Lithograph - Weehawken Ferry - Fermin Rocker
Lithograph of commuters exiting the Weehawken Ferryboat Catskill on foot and in their cars signed by artist Fermin Rocker.We do not have a date for this, but the clothes and cars look like they would date to the late 1940s or 1950s.
Tags: Art, Artists, Ferry, Transportation, Waterfront
Note from Mrs Karl Bitter regarding a fireplace grate
Undated handwritten note from Mrs. Karl Bitter to H.D. Morehouse of Utica, NY regarding the purchase of a grate for a wood burning stove. On stationery of The Studio of Karl Bitter.
Sketchbook - For the Collection of Edward J. Kirk - Grant Wright - 1934
Sketchbook by artist, Grant Wright, made for his friend and historical colleague, Lt. Edward Kirk.
Tags: Art, History, Miscellany
THE ART OF GRANT WRIGHT- A Short Film by Mike Boldt
Video of some of Grant Wright's sketches of Weehawken from the 1930s
Tags: Art, Grant Wright, Streets
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No. 17 - The Palisades. Jersey City, NJ
Black and white undivided postcard of the Weehawken Palisades, with Bitter home, atelier and Meister mansion in view. Obviously this is not Jersey…