Grand Central, Night
1929
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drypoint in black on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 32.7 × 20 cm (12 7/8 × 7 7/8 in.) sheet: 41.28 × 26.99 cm (16 1/4 × 10 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow)
Accession Number
2015.19.1438
Art Historical Context
Step into the electric glow of 1920s New York with *Grand Central, Night*, a captivating drypoint etching by American artist Walter Tittle, in 1929. This intimate print (plate: 32.7 × 20 cm; sheet: 41.28 × 26.99 cm) the iconic Grand Central Terminal after dark, evoking the pulse of urban life during the Jazz Age As commuters and travelers hurried through its grand halls amid economic boom times—just before the Great Depression—Tittle's work freezes a moment of modernity and movement in the heart of Manhattan. Drypoint, Tittle's chosen medium of black ink on wove paper, showcases the technique...
About the Artist
Walter Tittle
Walter Tittle was an American illustrator, portraitist, and printmaker who built a distinguished career in the early decades of the twentieth century, working across the overlapping worlds of magazine illustration, literary portraiture, and fine art printmaking. Born in Springfield, Ohio, he studied at the Art Students League of New York, an institution that provided rigorous training in drawing a...