This 1909 painting of the Queensboro Bridge is infused with life, arbitrary and off-balance Most of us crave stillness, smoothness, order. It’s why we love Johannes Vermeer and revere Edward Hopper.

View looking up through bridge supports crisscrossing a cloudy sky, with beams of sunlight breaking through and radiating across the bridge, and boats traveling on the river below. siris_ari_399442 ...

"Painting the town, cityscapes of New York: paintings from the Museum of the City of New York," New Haven, Conn.: Museum of the City of New York in association with Yale University Press, 2000. Museum ...