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Francis Guy’s Winter Scene

This exhibition displays a scene in downtown Brooklyn made around 1820 by the important early landscape painter Francis Guy (1760–1820). Representing the bustling village on a winter day, these monumental paintings have become iconic images of early-nineteenth-century Brooklyn.

In Winter Scene, Guy carefully delineated Brooklyn’s busy intersections and distinctive architecture, as well as the diversity of its inhabitants. While this reportorial approach suggests a local focus, the paintings participate in broader artistic trends that distinguished American scenery as a source of aesthetic beauty and national pride. Guy’s representation of the Brooklyn community comprises a range of professional, social, and ethnic groups and testifies to a Brooklyn that was marked by diversity then, as it is now.

2 comments

#1
6/17/08 :: 7:47 pm
Ann Says:

Lovely slice of everyday life which is a tribute to the average person-very refreshing and inclusive,

#2
9/2/09 :: 9:15 pm
philip ramphal Says:

i have an original print of Francis Guy Winter scene in Brooklyn, no.
68/500, Stamps with a seal, can you tell me what my print worth.




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