Newtown Creek, New York

Provenance

Private collection, Kansas City, Missouri

Estate of above

Sale, Soulis Auctions, Lone Jack, Missouri, March 18, 2023, lot 27, from above

Note: Newtown Creek is a tributary of the East River running between Brooklyn and Queens in New York. By the early twentieth century, the area had become a major industrial site with numerous refineries active along its banks. Jack Lorimer Gray’s depiction of Newtown Creek features a Paragon Oil building on the left and smoke rising past the distant view of the Manhattan skyline.