Crosstown Passengers, from the Series "59th Street Drawings"

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
c. 1945-46
Medium: 
Brown wash on paper, mounted on album page
Dimensions: 
Overall: 9 1/4 x 12 1/8 in. ( 23.5 x 30.8 cm ) portfolio: 16 x 13 1/4 x 2 in. ( 40.6 x 33.7 x 5.1 cm )
Description: 
Genre
Credit Line: 
Foster-Jarvis Fund, and contribution of Harry Goldberg
Object Number: 
1976.13.9
Marks: 
signature: lower left: "Lionel S. Reiss" inscription: lower right: "Crosstown Passengers"
Inscriptions: 
Signed at lower left in black ink: "Lionel S. Reiss"; inscribed at right of center in brown ink: "Crosstown Passengers"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1945
eMuseum Object ID: 
44631
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Watching the Ball Game, from the Series "59th Street Drawings"

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
c. 1945-46
Medium: 
Brown ink and wash over graphite on paper, mounted on album page
Dimensions: 
Overall: 8 x 10 5/8 in. ( 20.3 x 27 cm ) portfolio: 16 x 13 1/4 x 2 in. ( 40.6 x 33.7 x 5.1 cm )
Description: 
Genre
Credit Line: 
Foster-Jarvis Fund, and contribution of Harry Goldberg
Object Number: 
1976.13.8
Marks: 
signature: lower right: "Lionel S. Reiss" inscription: lower left: "Watching the Ball Game"
Inscriptions: 
Signed at lower right in black ink: "Lionel S. Reiss"; inscribed at lower left in brown ink: "Watching the Ball Game"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1945
eMuseum Object ID: 
44630
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Drilling a Rail, from the Series "59th Street Drawings"

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
c. 1945-46
Medium: 
Brown ink and wash over graphite on paper, mounted on album page
Dimensions: 
Overall: 9 1/4 x 12 1/16 in. ( 23.5 x 30.6 cm ) portfolio: 16 x 13 1/4 x 2 in. ( 40.6 x 33.7 x 5.1 cm )
Description: 
Genre
Credit Line: 
Foster-Jarvis Fund, and contribution of Harry Goldberg
Object Number: 
1976.13.6
Marks: 
signature: lower left: "Lionel S. Reiss" inscription: lower right: "Drilling a Rail"
Inscriptions: 
Signed at lower left in black ink: "Lionel S. Reiss"; inscribed at lower right in brown ink: "Drilling a Rail"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1945
eMuseum Object ID: 
44629
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Scrap No. 2, from the Series "59th Street Drawings"

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
c. 1945-46
Medium: 
Brown ink and wash over graphite on paper, mounted on album page
Dimensions: 
Overall: 9 1/4 x 12 1/16 in. ( 23.5 x 30.6 cm ) portfolio: 16 x 13 1/4 x 2 in. ( 40.6 x 33.7 x 5.1 cm )
Description: 
Genre
Credit Line: 
Foster-Jarvis Fund, and contribution of Harry Goldberg
Object Number: 
1976.13.5
Marks: 
signature: lower left: "Lionel S Reiss" inscription: lower right: "Scrap #2"
Inscriptions: 
Signed at lower left in black ink: "Lionel S. Reiss"; inscribed at lower right in brown and blue ink: "Scrap # 2"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1945
eMuseum Object ID: 
44628
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

St. Francis of Central Park, from the Series "59th Street Drawings"

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
c. 1945-46
Medium: 
Brown ink and wash on paper, mounted on album page
Dimensions: 
Overall: 9 1/4 x 12 1/16 in. ( 23.5 x 30.6 cm ) portfolio: 16 x 13 1/4 x 2 in. ( 40.6 x 33.7 x 5.1 cm )
Description: 
Genre
Credit Line: 
Foster-Jarvis Fund, and contribution of Harry Goldberg
Object Number: 
1976.13.1
Marks: 
signature: lower left: "Lionel S Reiss" inscription: lower right: "St. Francis of Central Park"
Inscriptions: 
Signed at lower left in black ink: "Lionel S. Reiss"; inscribed at lower right in brown ink: "St. Francis of Central Park"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1945
eMuseum Object ID: 
44627
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Midday on the Hudson, from an Album Compiled of works related to "Manhattan Crosstown"

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
c. 1945-46
Medium: 
Watercolor, black ink, and graphite on paper, mounted on album page with overmat
Dimensions: 
Image: 9 x 13 1/8 in. (22.9 x 33.3 cm) portfolio: 16 x 13 1/4 x 2 in. ( 40.6 x 33.7 x 5.1 cm )
Description: 
Genre/cityscape
Credit Line: 
Foster-Jarvis Fund, and contribution of Harry Goldberg
Object Number: 
1976.12.12
Inscriptions: 
Signed at lower right in black ink: "Lionel S. Reiss"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1945
eMuseum Object ID: 
44626
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

The Corner Chorus, from an Album Compiled of works related to "Manhattan Crosstown"; verso: sketch of a mountainous landscape

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
c. 1945-46
Medium: 
Watercolor, black ink, and graphite with touches of gouache on paper, mounted on album page with overmat; graphite
Dimensions: 
Image: 11 x 8 in. (27.9 x 20.3 cm) portfolio: 16 x 13 1/4 x 2 in. ( 40.6 x 33.7 x 5.1 cm )
Description: 
Genre
Credit Line: 
Foster-Jarvis Fund, and contribution of Harry Goldberg
Object Number: 
1976.12.10
Marks: 
signature: lower left: "Lionel S Reiss"
Inscriptions: 
Signed at lower right in black ink: "Lionel S. Reiss"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1945
eMuseum Object ID: 
44625
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Success, from an Album Compiled of works related to "Manhattan Crosstown"

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
c. 1945-46
Medium: 
Watercolor, black and brown ink, gouache, and graphite on paper, mounted on album page with overmat
Dimensions: 
Image: 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. (29.2 x 21.6 cm) portfolio: 16 x 13 1/4 x 2 in. ( 40.6 x 33.7 x 5.1 cm )
Description: 
Genre
Credit Line: 
Foster-Jarvis Fund, and contribution of Harry Goldberg
Object Number: 
1976.12.9
Marks: 
signature: lower right: "Lionel S Reiss"
Inscriptions: 
Signed at lower right in black ink: "Lionel S. Reiss"
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1945
eMuseum Object ID: 
44624
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Two Profile Portraits of Winthrop Ames (1870-1937)

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
1927
Medium: 
Graphite on heavy paper
Dimensions: 
Overall: 6 x 3 7/16 in. ( 15.2 x 8.7 cm )
Description: 
Portrait
Credit Line: 
Gift of the Family of William Henry Walker
Object Number: 
1990.1.42
Marks: 
signature and date: lower right: "WmH.Walker / 1927" inscription: right: "Winthrop Ames"
Inscriptions: 
Signed and inscribed at lower right vertically in graphite: "Wm H. Walker / 1927"; signed by sitter at middle right: "Winthrop Ames"
Gallery Label: 
In the early 1900s, Ames, a native of Massachusetts and a graduate of Harvard, went abroad to study theaters and theatrical production in Europe; in 1908 he was invited to preside over the New Theatre in New York City, the first repertory theater in the United States. According to "American National Biography," his greatest contribution to American theater was the groundbreaking work he did in introducing the new movements in twentieth-century European theater to the United States.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1927
eMuseum Object ID: 
44623
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

Portait of James F. Kemp (1859-1926); verso: Portrait of Mario Chamlee (1892-1966)

Classification: 
DRAWINGS
Highlight: 
Not promoted
Date: 
1925
Medium: 
Graphite on paper
Dimensions: 
Overall: 5 7/8 x 3 13/16 in. ( 14.9 x 9.7 cm )
Description: 
Portrait
Credit Line: 
Gift of the Family of William Henry Walker
Object Number: 
1990.1.21
Marks: 
inscription and date: lower center (recto): "James F. Kemp / Feb. 24, 1925" inscriptions: upper center (recto): "Great Well" and upper right (recto): "1185" signature: lower left (verso): "W.H.W." inscriptions and date: lower right (verso): "Mario Cham
Inscriptions: 
Inscribed along upper edge in graphite: "Great well / 1185"; signed by sitter at lower center: "James F. Kemp -- / Feb. 24. 1925."; verso signed and inscribed at lower left: "W.H.W."; at lower right: "1925 / Chamlee"; signed by sitter at lower right: "Mario Chamlee"
Gallery Label: 
A geologist, James F. Kemp became scientific director of New York Botanical Gardens in 1898. Mario Chamlee was an operatic tenor whose national debut, as Cavaradossi, in "La Tosca," took place November 22, 1920, at New York's Metropolitan Opera House.
Date Begin: 
0
Date End: 
1925
eMuseum Object ID: 
44622
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.

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