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View from Brooklyn by George Ault

View from Brooklyn

George Ault · 1927

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DETAILS
Artist
George Ault
Date
1927
Location
The Vilcek Foundation
ART MOVEMENTS
Precisionism
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THE ARTIST

George Ault

1891–1948 · United States

Precisionist painter who called skyscrapers 'tombstones of capitalism' and painted haunting nocturnes in poverty.

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