Summer Morning near St. Michael's Church, Amsterdam Ave. Acrylic Print

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I love how the tiled roofs and handsome copper-clad steeple rise above the morning shadows. St. Michael's has been here at Tenth (now Amsterdam) Avenue and West 99th since 1807. Drop in if you're in the vicinity to enjoy the allegedly "Byzantine-Romanesque" 1891 architecture of Robert W. Gibson and the very real Tiffany windows and mosaics.

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,...