In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, industrial growth, mass migrations, and new forms of transportation created urban centers in the United States and Europe and transformed them into “modern cities.” For artists, the city became a dynamic backdrop to daily life as well as an artistic subject in its own right. This gallery explores how artists depicted the changing urban landscape throughout the twentieth century.
Image Credits:
Don Eddy, Private Parking V (detail), 1971, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 66 in., Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Westheimer Family Collection, 1971.059, © Don Eddy, photo © Oklahoma City Museum of Art
Ludolfs Liberts, Moulin Rouge, Paris – At Night (detail), early to mid-20th century, oil on canvas, 16 x 20 in., Oklahoma City Museum of Art, gift of Dr. Joseph R. Fazzano, 1954.010, photo © Oklahoma City Museum of Art
Guy Carleton Wiggins, Along Central Park on a Snowy Morning (detail), ca. 1940, oil on canvas, 30 x 25 in., Oklahoma City Museum of Art, gift of the Oklahoma Art League, 1973.059, © Estate of Guy Carleton Wiggins, photo © Oklahoma City Museum of Art
