
Politics and Culture in Early America
Lectures in History
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New York City Cityscapes
The art work of a man by the name of william chapell, who painted a series of new york city city scapes in the 18 seventies. He's capturing very ordinary workaday spaces. What else do you notice about what he's capturing here? Yes, it doesn't look like the new york that we think of. It looks very much like a small town. There's no really tall buildings or anything like that. This is new york in a totally different scale thon the new York we would think of to day. Absolutely.
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