Lot 488
Colin Campbell Cooper, N. A. (American/New York, 1856-1937), "Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, New York", oil on artist board, signed lower left, 18 in. x 15 in., in a period carved giltwood frame, with a 1941 biography of the artist en verso. Note: Trained under Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in his native Philadelphia, and at the Académie Julien in Paris, Campbell Cooper spent twenty of his most productive years in New York, where he specialized in vivacious images of the modern cityscape. This lively and captivating view of the northwest corner of Fifth Avenue and West 53rd Street features the spectacular Neo-Gothic facade by Ralph Adams Cram (1863-1942) for St. Thomas Church (1906-1914), which had recently been executed in collaboration with Cram's gifted partner Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue (1869-1924). Reference: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects, New York, 1982, vol. 1, pp. 472-473, for illustration and analysis of this facade.
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