From a Balcony, (painting).

From a Balcony, (painting).

Coleman, Glenn O., 1887-1932, painter.

From a Balcony, (painting).

Digital Reference:

(Lower right, diagonally in the window shutter, in green paint:) Coleman signed

A New York City view in Lower Manhattan from the interior of a room through an open balcony door adorned with shutters. (The view is from the north side of the Brooklyn Bridge approach looking south.) Below the balcony, there is a meandering street lined with circa 18th century houses painted in orange, yellow, and blue. There are also figures and a horse cart on the street. In the foreground, there is a county style chair with a wicker seat, and two potted plants on a wrought iron balcony, one in a blue pot on the left, the other in a red pot on the right. The street scene is juxtaposed against the towering mass of Art Deco and Neo-Gothic buildings, one of which is unfinished. (The building with the pyramid roof is 40 Wall Street Manhattan Trust Building, finished in 1930. The first building from the right is the south tower of the Equitable Buildings at 120 Broadway, completed in 1915. The remaining buildings are composites of 1 Wall Street Irving Trust Building, finished in 1931, and City Bank Farmers Trust at 20 Exchange Place, built in 1931. The unfinished building on the left is Cities Services Building at 70 Pine Street, completed in 1932.) The view is framed by brown green window interior shutters with dark green ivy on the left and pale yellow-green walls with repeating pink flower motif. (The wall color and pattern is identical to the one found in "The Mirror," dated 1927, which is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art.)

Architecture interior -- Domestic -- Apartment

Architecture interior -- Detail -- Window

Architecture interior -- Detail -- Balcony

Object -- Furniture -- Chair

Cityscape -- New York -- New York City

Spasovic, Lazar N., 1 Greene Street, Jersey City, New Jersey

Formerly in the collection of Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Anonymous collection,

Purchased from F.B. Horowitz Fine Art Ltd., Hopkins, Minnesota 2007.

A label on the back of the painting indicates that it was exhibited at the New Society of Artists, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, Nov. 20, 1928-Jan. 1, 1929.

Spasovic, Lazar N., 2008.

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