Absolute Stillness in a “View from Brooklyn,” Painted by George Copeland Ault in 1927

Ephemeral New York says the vantage point of a “View From Brooklyn” by George Copeland Ault (1927)  looks like Brooklyn Heights, Red Hook, or possibly further upriver in Williamsburg or Greenpoint. Ault was a “precisionist and surrealist painter” known for nocturnes, who had a knack for showing lonely, everyday beauty of the world in a moment of absolute stillness.

Ault also dabbled in realism, and essentially painted whatever he saw around himself in a quietly controlled style–often architectural subjects, such as this Brooklyn building.

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