Photo of collection object Trinity Church and Wall Street — Hartman, Bertram. Trinity Church and Wall Street, 1929. Oil on canvas, 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). John B. Woodward Memorial Fund, 30.1109. No known copyright restrictions.

Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum

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.

Original Source

Maker/Artist: Hartman, Bertram
Classification: Painting
Formatted Medium: Oil on canvas
Medium: oil, 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
Museum Location: American Art Galleries, 5th Floor, The City and the Rise of the Modern Woman, 1900–1945
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