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Finest Fillet on Front Street
$350 – giclee – 11" x 15" unframed
Front and Beekman streets when the Fulton Fish Market was in operation at the Seaport. Journeymen delivered seafood, buyers’ trucks awaited them, men cut and sold fish, and Carmine’s Bar was open all night for market workers.
The challenge was to achieve an intense area of light surrounded by darkened buildings without losing detail or color in either. – N.R. |
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Carter Fish Company, 4 a.m.
$350 – print – 15" x 22" unframed
New York City’s Fulton Fish Market, in operation since 1822, was in lower Manhattan on the banks of the East River until 2005, when it moved to the Bronx. It is the country’s largest wholesale fish market, handling more than a million pounds of seafood a night.
Vigorous Market activity (in sight of landmarks such as the Brooklyn Bridge) in the middle of the night while most New Yorkers slept, inspired me to spend my own nights, with sketchbook in hand, among the workers. Such scenes of color, light and action are an artist’s dream. – N.R. |
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Carter Fish Company, 7 a.m.
$350 – print – 15" x 22" unframed |
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Front Street by the Bridge
$350 – giclee – 15" x 11" unframed
This building on the corner of Front and Dover streets, within the Seaport Historic District next to the Brooklyn Bridge, has housed several bars and restaurants (within recent memory: Jeremy’s Ale House, Cheryl’s, Radio Mexico, Belle De Jour, Cowgirl Sea-Horse).
I was moved to do a watercolor as a remembrance of Radio Mexico, where neighborhood “regulars” gathered. Its closing came suddenly one cold winter day. I wanted to convey warmth and coziness. – N.R. |
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Dawn on Beekman Street
$350 – giclee – 11" x 15" unframed
Looking east toward Brooklyn. Beekman and South streets were the center of the Fulton Fish Market when it was in lower Manhattan, along the banks of the East River, the Brooklyn Bridge a near neighbor.
I took artist’s license in removing the elevated highway that runs along South Street, revealing buildings and bustling activity. I delighted in putting the “Wiz” heaving a cod onto his cutting table, seen through a top-floor window, left. – N.R. |
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Sloppy Louie's on South Street
$350 – giclee – 15" x 11" unframed
South and Fulton streets with journeymen pushing hand trucks loaded with seafood. At Sloppy Louie’s Restaurant, opened in 1930, fishmongers often brought their own fish for breakfast as they discussed business.
I see color, light and texture weaving together into an intricate mosaic, with layers of market activity and architecture amplified in rich tones. – N.R. |
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Old Beekman Street
$350 – giclee – 11" x 15" unframed
Looking down Beekman Street toward the historic Tin Building on South Street on a busy night at the old Fulton Fish Market. Beekman served as a parking area for buyers’ trucks, awaiting journeymen who delivered purchased fish.
I took artist’s license, removing the elevated highway along South Street and replacing the current Fulton Market building with its one-story predecessor (right). – N.R. |
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Seaport Snowfall
$350 – giclee – 15" x 11" unframed
The heart of the historic district known as South Street Seaport is bounded by the Brooklyn Bridge, Pearl and John streets, and the East River. Its nineteenth century buildings stand on land reclaimed from the river, and filled in by the early 1800s. The original shoreline was along Pearl Street.
I like aerial views. The enclave of the old part of town is clearly laid out: clusters of small brick buildings, roofs covered in snow, East River meandering alongside, and the bridge crowning the whole arrangement. The snow ties it nicely together. – N.R. |
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Carmine's Bar & Grill
$350 – giclee – 11" x 15" unframed
Carmine’s Bar & Grill on the corner of Beekman and Front was a local landmark from the 1930s to 2010. Started as an all-night bar for men from the nearby Fulton Fish Market, the restaurant came to serve the Wall Street crowd in its last decades. The 1824 building is reputed to have housed a speakeasy on its upper floors during Prohibition.
I love old buildings and the layers of history etched into their worn facades. I want to convey a strong sense of time and people past. I often draw on my first encounters with the Seaport in the 1960s, when streets were deserted and buildings neglected. – N.R. |
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Snowfall on Beekman Street
$350 – giclee – 15" x 11" unframed |
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A Warming Fire at Dawn
$350 – giclee – 11" x 17" unframed
On a cold wintry morning, fish market workers stop to warm themselves by a fire under the elevated highway along the East River near the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges.
I was intrigued by the composition: some forms are cut off or hidden, while others are neatly framed. Approaching dawn over Brooklyn softens the contrast of heavy darks above the fire’s intense light. – N.R. |
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Schooner Pioneer at Sunset
$350 – giclee – 11" x 15" unframed
The Pioneer, launched in 1885, hauled sand to iron foundries along the Delaware River, and was the first of only two cargo-carrying sloops with wrought iron hulls built in this country. She was donated to the South Street Seaport Museum in 1970. Pioneer is the last iron-hulled American merchant sailing vessel still in existence today.
I admire the elegant forms of the Pioneer in full sail. The sloop is a natural element in New York's expansive harbor, and sunset allows me to surround the muted tones of the vessel's sails with vibrant color. – N.R. |
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Heading Straight
$350 – giclee – 11" x 15" unframed
There is enormous power to a tug as it carves its way through the water. A head-on view says it best, and is trilling to see.– N.R. |
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Tall Ship Wavertree at Sunrise
$350 – giclee – 11" x 15" unframed
Wavertree, launched in Liverpool in 1885, was one of the last large wrought iron sailing ships built. After carrying cargoes to and from ports around the world, she was dismasted in a storm off Cape Horn and used as a floating warehouse in Chile, then a sand barge in Argentina. Wavertree was acquired by the South Street Seaport Museum in 1968.
While the Wavertree rarely moves from her berth at the Seaport Museum on the Manhattan side of the East River, I used artist's license to imagine the tall ship by the Brooklyn Bridge, bathed in the warm light of sunrise. – N.R. |
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View from the Palisades
$350 – giclee – 11" x 17" unframed
The George Washington Bridge was the world's longest suspension bridge when it opened in 1931. It spans the Hudson River between upper Manhattan, and Fort Lee, NJ. It was originally designed to be sheathed in granite, but with the onset of the Depression, the steel was left exposed.
I was walking in the park along the New Jersey Palisades on a gray day, but for the watercolor, I intensified the fog effect to accent the Little Red Lighthouse. – N.R. |
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Staten Island Ferry, 1995
$350 – print – 17" x 12" unframed
The subject of this watercolor was the Staten Island Ferry. I thought the lower Manhattan skyline made a grand background for it. – N.R. |
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New York Harbor
$350 – print – 14.5" x 20" unframed
The windows on the twentieth floor of 17 Battery Place overlook one of the world's most interesting harbors. With Battery Park, Castle Clinton and Pier A in the foreground, the scene opens up to include Brooklyn, the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, Staten Island, Governors Island, Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, New Jersey and the Bayonne Bridge.
I made a point of including many elements of the busy harbor with its well-known landmarks. One of the aspects of New York, which makes it a great city for an artist, is the varied waterfront. There is everything from industry and shipping to sandy beaches in the outer boroughs, and it is all eminently paintable. – N.R. |
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Times Square
$350 – print – 17.5" x 24" unframed |
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