New York Roof Tops  1908

Louis Eilshemius was an eccentric painter who captured the interest of the avant-garde in the early twentieth century. New York Roof Tops reflects Eilshemius’s appreciation of the visionary night scenes of Albert Pinkham Ryder, the one living American artist he admired in 1908, as well as the work of Robert Henri and John Sloan who made New York City life the subject of th...