Blackwell's Island, East River
1900 · Oil on canvas · Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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About this work
- Artist
- Robert Henri (1865–1929)
- Year
- 1900
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 50.8 × 61.4 cm
- Collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- Movement
- Ashcan School
Grey ice floats down the East River in New York under a heavy winter sky, past the snow-covered buildings and domes of Blackwell's Island, with a dark tugboat moored at the lower right. Henri painted it in 1900, the year he settled in New York, when he was turning the city's everyday views into broad, dark, quickly brushed pictures. The island, then home to a prison and hospitals, is now Roosevelt Island. The painting is in the Whitney Museum of American Art.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A moody grey-and-olive winter river for a study, office or hallway in a black frame. It suits charcoal, warm grey or deep green walls at 16×24 and pairs with Henri's Snow in New York.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Ashcan School painting
- Era
- 19th century (1900)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- dramatic, moody
- Rooms
- hallway or entryway, study or library, home office, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 16×24. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
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A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
























