42nd Street Reflections Acrylic Print

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The sheer energy of NYC's sidewalks never fails to fascinate & intrigue me. This is a detail (about 8.75" x 10.5") of a larger composition that attempt to capture the spirit of West 42nd Street heading east toward Sixth Ave. The digital file just turned up, and it's all that remains of a favorite painting I sold several years ago.

Peter Salwen's light-filled urban landscapes are in collections across the U.S., Europe and South America. Salwen's paintings, he says "try to express the deep pleasure to be found in something as simple as sunlight on a wall or the ordinary traffic of people and machinery at city street corner. At heart they are simply thank-you notes to Nature for providing such an endless array of visual joys, most especially in New York City, which is of course Nature's noblest creation. "The city streets offer up an ever-shifting kaleidoscope of shapes, colors and impressions to the interested eye. Most of my paintings are an attempt to capture the sensations of one particular moment and somehow wrestle them onto the canvas where, with luck,...