Where two ends meet - Scene on the pier at twenty-sixth street, East River, New York

Where two ends meet - Scene on the pier at twenty-sixth street, East River, New York
Where two ends meet - Scene on the pier at twenty-sixth street, East River, New York

Where two ends meet - Scene on the pier at twenty-sixth street, East River, New York

Date1891
Artist (American artist and illustrator, 1848–1930)
Illustration Citation"Where Extremes Meet," by Edmund Collins, in Harper's Weekly, August 15, 1891
MediumWatercolor, gouache, and oil on illustration board
Dimensions15 3/4 × 25 in. (40 × 63.5 cm)
frame: 25 3/4 × 34 3/4 in. (65.4 × 88.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Donald J. Puglisi, 2006
Object number2006-65
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextThure de Thulstrup illustrates a text describing two sections of a New York City pier. One--marked New York Yacht Club-- is manned by a city policeman ready to assist club members and visitors. This section (left half of image) includes a ship's officer standing with two smartly-dressed women as a seaman prepares wine bottles. The other section--marked Charities and Correction--funnels "the unfortunates and the criminals" to a boat that will disperse them to prisons, asylums, hospitals, and workhouses throughout the city. Handcuffs, frayed shoes and clothing, and crutches identify the shuffling group.

After a military career in his native Sweden and in France, and training in topographical drawing as a civil engineer in Canada, de Thulstrup moved to New York and began a long career in illustration. In 1896, a noted critic included him with painters such as Winslow Homer, George Inness, and James McNeill Whistler as one of the "later American masters."




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