NYC Nocturne

Provenance

Private collection, New York, New York

Related Works

Times Square, New York, (Night), ca. 1920, pastel on gray paper mounted on board, 13⅜ x 11⅛ inches, signed lower left: F. Usher De Voll; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Note

Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Frederick Usher De Voll attended the Rhode Island School of Design and studied with William Merritt Chase, Robert Henri, and Charles Webster Hawthorne at the Académie Julian in Paris. He is best known for atmospheric views of New York City, New England, and coastal Rhode Island, depicting urban scenes and the working vessels of New York Harbor and the Hudson River with a refined, Impressionist-inflected sensibility. De Voll exhibited widely at major American institutions, received a silver medal at the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition, and is represented in collections including the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Everson Museum, and the Rhode Island Historical Society.