Brooklyn Bridge
Henry Ward Ranger (American, 1858–1916)
1899
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Materials & printing
Archival matte paper, 189 g/m² (10.3 mil), sourced from Japan, printed with multicolor water-based inkjet so every brushstroke stays crisp. Framed prints arrive ready to hang in a .75″ ayous-wood frame with an acrylite front. Sized to standard frames by cropping, never stretching — at most about 3% comes off one edge, which isn’t noticeable on most pieces, and we only offer a size when it stays that small.
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A thin, flat margin on every piece — just enough to keep the store running. Most of what you pay is the print itself. We only sell sizes that reproduce at full quality, and we don’t mark up the large sizes the way most shops do.
About this work
Although best known for his bucolic views of the countryside near his Connecticut home, New York City was Henry Ward Ranger’s primary place of residence, and the artist found inspiration in the urban environment. In Brooklyn Bridge he recorded one of the greatest icons of modernity. Completed in 1883, this impressive structure was still the longest suspension bridge in the world when Ranger painted it sixteen years later. Yet instead of emphasizing its massive scale or modern construction the artist produced a fairly traditional view, integrating the bridge into the landscape. The painting displays a rich luminosity through Ranger’s method of layering applications of paint and using transparent glazes.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 72.4 × 91.8 cm (28 1/2 × 36 1/8 in.)
Museum record · 2 exhibitions
Exhibitions
- Pennsylvania, Allentown Art Museum, Painting Progress, American Art and the Idea of Technology, 1800–1917 (Oct. 11–Dec. 31, 1991), checklist, no cat. no. or ill. Springfield, Ill., Illinois State Museum, Nineteenth Century American Painters, Mar. 5–Apr. 24, 1966; Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, May 19–June 5; Muscatine, Iowa, July 24–Oct. 2; Peoria, Lakeview Center for the Art and Sciences, Nov. 30, 1966–Jan. 8, 1967.
- Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey, Paris 1900: 'The American School' at the Universal Exposition, Sept. 18, 1999–Jan. 16, 2000; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Feb. 11–Apr. 16, 2000; Columbus Museum of Art, May 18–Aug. 13, 2000; Madison, Wisconsin, Elvehjem Museum of Art, Sept. 16–Dec. 3, 2000.
