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Classification: Painting
Medium: Oil
Support: On canvas
Year: 1920
1920.21
Street Scene in New York (Sixth Avenue)
c.1920
Oil on canvas
39 1/8 x 32 in. (99.4 x 81.3 cm)
Signed lower left: J. Torres-GARCIA; undated
Museum of Modern Art, New York (Gift from Morton G. Neumann, 1976) (SC725.1976)
Provenance
Morton G. Neumann
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Exhibitions
2015–2016 Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Joaquín Torres-García: The Arcadian Modern, October 25, 2015–February 15, 2016, ill., p. 23, fig. 8. Traveled to: Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, May 16–September 11, 2016; Museo Picasso, Málaga, Spain, October 10, 2016–January 29, 2017.
Published References
Luisi 1933
Luisi, Clotilde. "Un pintor uruguayo olvidado." Alfar (Montevideo) 74 (July 1933), ill.
Gradowczyk 2007
Gradowczyk, Mario H. Torres-García: Utopía y Transgresión. Montevideo: Fundación Torres-García, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 81, no. 3.17.
Onieva 2009
Onieva, Sonia. Artistes catalans al món. Barcelona: Edicions 62, 2009, ill. p. 51.
Caixa Cultural 2010
Torres-García, Traços de Nova York. Rio de Janeiro, 2010. Exhibition catalogue (2010 Caixa Cultural), ill. p. 78.
Record last updated October 21, 2015. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: de Torres, Cecilia, Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti. "Street Scene in New York (Sixth Avenue), c.1920 (1920.21)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=484 (accessed on September 8, 2025).