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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Mapping the City\nEvent Url: http://www.artsboston.
 org/event/detail/441396403/Mapping_the_City\nEvent Date Begin: 2011-06-03
 \nEvent Date End: 2011-09-25\n\nNew York City at the turn of the twentieth
  century was rapidly transforming into the quintessential modern metropoli
 s.  A symbol as well as a product of its time\, it embodied the forces of 
 chaos and dynamism\, industry and technology\, diversity and expansion.  T
 he printmakers and photographers working in New York City between 1900 and
  1935 mapped this changing landscape.\n\nUnder the tutelage of the painter
  Robert Henri who taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the 
 New York School of Art\, artists like John Sloan\, George Bellows\, and Ed
 ward Hopper made New York City life one of their primary subjects. Their p
 rints are urban vignettes expressed in a manner at once spontaneous\, grit
 ty\, playful\, and direct.  Capitalizing on the booming business sector\, 
 this generation of printmakers made their livings in the fast-paced commer
 cial world of newspaper illustration and advertising\, a practice as influ
 ential to their work as the august history of fine art for its lessons in 
 quick sketching\, caricature\, and expressive simplicity.\n\nA second circ
 le of New York City artists was dominated by the legendary photographer Al
 fred Stieglitz\, a self-appointed cultural arbiter and gate-keeper.  As de
 aler\, curator\, and editor&mdash\;he ran the small\, powerful Gallery 291
  and produced an art journal called 'Camera Work'&mdash\;Stieglitz promote
 d emerging American artists such as the painter and printmaker John Marin\
 , whom he also patronized\, alongside the work of the European avant-garde
 . Stieglitz encouraged Marin to break with realism in order to convey an e
 xperiential sense of life in the city.  In his own photographic work\, Sti
 eglitz pursued a vision of the city that was both haunting and picturesque
 .\n\nThe artists represented in 'Mapping the City' were participants in as
  well as keen observers of New York City life&mdash\;they are residents an
 d explorers\, and their work re-traces their steps through the urban lands
 cape.  More broadly\, it maps human experience\, solitary and shared\, on 
 an urban grid &mdash\;the anonymous crowds at boxing matches and burlesque
  shows\, the women at the windows of tenement buildings\, the clusters of 
 pedestrians at street corners.  But the work also maps the urban grid in t
 erms of lived experience\, and the particular forms of perception the indu
 strial cityscape allows: Manhattan seen from the roof of a skyscraper\, or
  bisected by the whir of rapid transit.  The portrait that emerges is of a
  city constantly generating both new sights and new ways of seeing.\n\nIma
 ge credit: Edward Hopper. American\, 1882 &ndash\; 1967. &ldquo\;Night Sha
 dows.&rdquo\; 1921. Etching on off-white wove paper. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Malcolm G. Chace Jr. (Beatrice Ross Oenslager\, class of 1928).\n\nStart t
 ime: Tuesday-Saturday 10 AM&ndash\;4 PM\; Sundays 12&ndash\;4 PM\; Second 
 Fridays 10 AM&ndash\;8 PM\; Closed Mondays and major holidays.
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SUMMARY:Mapping the City
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