September 20, 2014 to July 12, 2015
Bascove is noted for her paintings of New York City bridges, which she has been documenting for most of her career. This exhibition includes 32 paintings and drawings, including a selection of her bridge studies and preliminary drawing. A catalog of the exhibition is available.
“Bascove’s work is especially relevant in this ‘season of bridges,’” Erin Urban, Executive Director of the Noble Maritime Collection, commented. “The Verrazano Narrows Bridge is turning 50. After a new Goethals Bridge is constructed alongside it, the original bridge will be dismantled. Raising the roadbed on the Bayonne Bridge by 135 feet will transform that structure significantly, even as that project preserves the Kill van Kull’s reputation as one of the world’s busiest waterways.”
Bascove has celebrated the bridges of New York City in solo exhibitions at the Museum of the City of New York, the Arsenal in Central Park, the Municipal Art Society, the Hudson River Museum, NYU Fales Library, and the National Arts Club.
Her work is in private and public collections, including the MTA Arts for Transit, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Linda Lee Alter Collection of Art by Women, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, the Noble Maritime Collection, the Harry Ransom Collection, the University of Texas at Austin, the Rachofsky Collection, the Norwalk Transit District, Time Warner, the Oresman Collection, the Musée of Cherbourg, and the Archives and National Library, Canada.
Three collections of her paintings, accompanied by anthologies of related writings, have been published by David R. Godine. They include Sustenance & Desire: A Food Lover's Anthology of Sensuality and Humor (2004), Where Books Fall Open: A Reader’s Anthology of Wit and Passion (2001), and Stone and Steel: Paintings and Writings Celebrating the Bridges of New York City (1998).
Funding for the exhibition was provided, in part, by the Trustees and members of the Noble Maritime Collection, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.
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