^Great photos!
I want to mention the importance of the bridge in relation to the time in which it was built--the 1920s--and the fact that this time coincided with the dawn of what some call "the
Precisionist Movement" in American painting.
Some of America's most famous artists like
Georgia O'Keefe and
Charles Sheeler tackled the subject of the industrial landscape, painting stunningly detailed pictures of factories, skyscrapers and yes,
bridges--even ones designed by none other than JSB designer
Joseph Strauss.
It would be fair to say they have influenced
modern artists as well.
Our bridge is a real link to this vanishing historical age of engineering and artistic genius.
Elsie Driggs (1898 – 1992) Queensborough Bridge, 1927
Oil on Canvas, 401/2 x 30 ¼ inches
MAM Purchase: Lang Acquisition Fund 1969.4