Trinity Church and Wall Street, 1929 Oil on canvas. Bertram Hartman American, 1882-1960. Skyscrapers loom above older buildings, planes fly overhead, and people crowd the sidewalks in this dramatic bird's-eye view of Manhattan's Wall Street. Bertram Hartman's meaning may not be quite so straightforward, however. He painted Trinity Church and Wall Street in the year of a great stock market crash that devastated the nation's economy. By showing the gothic spires of Trinity Church overshadowed by skyscrapers, Hartman may have intended his viewers to contemplate the relationship between spiritual

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Trinity Church and Wall Street, 1929 Oil on canvas. Bertram Hartman American, 1882-1960. Skyscrapers loom above older buildings, planes fly overhead, and people crowd the sidewalks in this dramatic bird's-eye view of Manhattan's Wall Street. Bertram Hartman's meaning may not be quite so straightforward, however. He painted Trinity Church and Wall Street in the year of a great stock market crash that devastated the nation's economy. By showing the gothic spires of Trinity Church overshadowed by skyscrapers, Hartman may have intended his viewers to contemplate the relationship between spiritual and material needs in modern life.

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Size: 3024px × 4032px
Location: Brooklyn, New York City, USA
Photo credit: © David Grossman / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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