Sentences with phrase «house by the railroad»

Then there's the matter of Edward Hopper's painting House by the Railroad from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

Many artworks were made in such a fashion, like The Lighthouse at Two Lights (1929), New York City Automat (1927) and House by the Railroad (1925).

The exhibition opened with MoMA's first decade, including such iconic works as Edward Hopper's House by the Railroad (acquired in 1930), Paul Cézanne's The Bather (acquired in 1934) Constantin Brancusi's Bird in Space (acquired in 1934), as well as Walker Evans's Posed Portraits, New York (acquired in 1938), Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie (acquired in 1936), and utilitarian, machine - made objects, such as an outboard propeller, a flush valve, and a self - aligning ball bearing (acquired in 1934).

January: Stephen C. Clark gives House by Railroad to the Museum of Modern Art.

In conceiving her work, indeed, Cornelia Parker was inspired by some very «cinematographic» archetypes, namely the paintings of Edward Hopper, the traditional American red barns, and the sinister house Alfred Hitchcock imagined as the perfect family abode for the disturbed character of Norman Bates in Psycho (1960), which was clearly inspired by Hopper's painting House by the Railroad (1925).

Nonetheless, it almost immediately opened up to contemporary American art (such as Edward Hopper's House by the Railroad acquired in 1930) and demonstrated a desire to bring different disciplines closer together.

House by the Railroad.

• House by the Railroad (1925) Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) NY.

Further themes explored downstairs include Femme Maison, epitomized by the work of Louise Bourgeois and The Haunted House, featuring Edward Hopper's masterpiece House by a Railroad, 1925.

In 1930 his painting House by the Railroad (1925) was the first painting by any artist to enter the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.

Second generation Ashcan painters included George Wesley Bellows (1882 - 1925) and Edward Hopper (1882 - 1967) who produced numerous realist genre works as well as landscapes - see, for instance, House by the Railroad (1925, Museum of Modern Art) and Lighthouse at Two Lights (1929, Metropolitan Museum) and his masterpiece Nighthawks (1942, Art Institute of Chicago).

However, this painting, like House by the Railroad (1925, Museum of Modern Art, New York), is an exception, and focuses instead on one of Hopper's passions - the sea.

Highlights include Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, by Picasso; House by the Railroad, by Edward Hopper; The Persistence of Memory, by Salvador Dali; Broadway Boogie Woogie, by Piet Mondrian; One: Number 31, 1950, by Jackson Pollock; Bed.

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, and rush out of the house with four minutes to spare for a five - minute sprint to church, and then... then I would simply turn north, through the small woods between our house and Mass, and head to the village bakery, perhaps, or just stroll unconcernedly along the railroad tracks, a free man, subject to no ancient religion and its pompous authority, bound by no rules and regulations — an independent spirit, a young man choosing his road for himself.

She was daughter of Martín Amador, one of the most prominent citizens of the Mesilla Valley.7 In May 1908, García was preparing to build a house on land he owned facing the railroad depot by having a supply of adobes made.8 As time went by, he acquired numerous pieces of property throughout Las Cruces and Mesilla Park.

The board also annexed one house at 0N433 Cumnor Ave.. That home is in a small unincorporated neighborhood just north of the Union Pacific railroad tracks that became completely surrounded by village boundaries after trustees incorporated 29 houses along Crescent Boulevard from 1995 to 1999, and then annexed an additional 15 houses on Cumnor, Scott and Clifton Avenues and Ellynwood Drive in 2002.

Ironically, he'd already done his best - known work by then; but I'd be well into adulthood before the benefits of film societies, rep houses, videotape, and eventually digital redistribution would afford me the opportunity to catch up with the films of his meteoric rise: A Walk in the Sun (Lewis Milestone, 1945), My Darling Clementine (John Ford, 1946), Railroaded!

Recent successes include: No god but God (Random House), by religious scholar Reza Aslan; Morgan Spurlock's Don't Eat This Book (Putnam), a companion to his Academy Award nominated documentary Super Size Me; Fergus Bordewich's Bound for Canaan (Amistad), the first narrative history of the Underground Railroad; and Benjamin Kunkel's Indecision (Random House), lead fiction title by an editor of the new literary magazine n +1.

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, narrated by Bahni Turpin, published by Penguin Random House Audio / Books On Tape

The railroad was known for its passenger trains, notably the Chicago - Los Angeles El Capitan and Super Chief (currently operated as Amtrak's Southwest Chief), and for the on - line eating houses and dining cars that were operated by Fred Harvey.

In Kobe in 1995, most people died in their homes: the old wood houses on infill land along the railroad tracks collapsed, but deaths were caused not by roofs but by fire: gas lines burst, igniting whole neighborhoods, and water mains also broke, preventing firefighting.

In place of the suburb, it wants Soviet - style high density housing; changes in zoning laws that increasingly make it impossible to maintain single family residences (let alone build new ones); mandated use of public transportation (thus positioning the high density housing near railroad or bus depots and excluding from those «human residential zones» most roadways and parking installations); and severe limitations on private food, water, and energy consumption, in return for enormously high taxes that will fund «cradle to grave» care by the nanny government.