The River
Date1906
Artist
Julius Golz
(American painter and teacher, 1878–1965)
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions18 x 22 in. (45.7 x 55.9 cm)
frame: 21 3/4 x 25 3/4 in. (55.2 x 65.4 cm)
frame: 21 3/4 x 25 3/4 in. (55.2 x 65.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1975
Object number1975-38
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextIn 1910, Robert Henri described Golz's work in The Craftsman: "Take the picture, for instance, of Julius Golz, the painter of Blackwell's Island and the East River. What force and power is in this man's work. He seems to be the only man who has ever painted the East River, that wonderful snowswept fence against that absolutely deep and tragic water and then beyond, Blackwell's Island, and all done without a particle of sentimentality. As a canvas it stands as a striking piece of realism and yet in the hanging it is associated with and is a most natural accompaniment to the painting of Arthur Davies, the great imaginator." This was high praise from Henri who had painted Blackwell's Island in 1900. George Bellows painted the same subject in 1909. Edward Hopper would paint it in 1911.
