George Bellows completed 'The Lone Tenement' in 1909. The painting represents the nearly complete 59th Street Bridge, which passes over Roosevelt Island, linking the borough of Queens with mid-town Manhattan. Although the bridge was an impressive engineering feat at the time and a symbol of progress, Bellows chose to focus instead on an abandoned, old tenement building underneath the bridge and a group of desultory figures warming themselves by a fire. Tenement buildings of this kind were often associated with a social issues because of their poor and often immigrant residents. In the background we see a tug boat on a river puffing white smoke and a cityscape in the distance. Dozens of people, small in scale, gather around a fire at the foot of the building. Several more people stand and sit against the building, which has a street lamp near its entrance. Bellows, with his impressionistic style, bold brushstrokes, thick paint, and muted color palette has conveyed a mood of melancholy, recording the precarious positions of those who were being displaced to make way for the future.

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Size: 91 (h) x 122 cm (w)
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