EARL HORTER (1883-1940) GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL / NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES. 1927. 39x25 inches. Latham Liho. & Printing Co., Long Island C

EARL HORTER (1883-1940) GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL / NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES. 1927.
39 1/4x25 5/8 inches. Latham Liho. & Printing Co., Long Island City, New York.
Condition B+: numerous creases in image; minor restored losses in image and margins; minor repaired tears in margins. Printed on thick stock.
The interior of the main hall of New York City's Grand Central Station, looking east. This image, taken from an etching, "revealed a Modernist influence . . . Horter filled the renowned mixing space with sketchily abstract figures, making it pulse with energy as bands of sepia-toned light gave depth to the vast expanse beneath the barrel-vaulted ceiling" (Zega p. 68). Notice the cars at the far end, a long lost feature of the station. Zega fig. 89.

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