Trinity Church and Wall Street
1929
Bertram Hartman
American, 1882-1960
American Art
Skyscrapers loom above older buildings, planes fly overhead, and people crowd the sidewalks in this dramatic bird’seye view of Manhattan’s Wall Street. Bertram Hartman’s meaning may not be quite so straightforward, however. He painted Trinity Church and Wall Street in the year of a great stock market crash that devastated the nation’s economy. By showing the gothic spires of Trinity Church overshadowed by skyscrapers, Hartman may have intended his viewers to contemplate the relationship between spiritual and material needs in modern life.
- Maker/Artist
- Hartman, Bertram
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 50 x 30in. (127 x 76.2cm) frame: 55 1/2 x 35 1/2 x 2 in. (141 x 90.2 x 5.1 cm)
- Departments
- American Art
- Accession Number
- 30.1109
- Credit Line
- John B. Woodward Memorial Fund
- Exhibitions
- American Identities: A New Look, Town and Country: Images of Urban and Rural Life in America, American Art
- Rights Statement
- No known copyright restrictions
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