Seeing the Hudson at Alan Klotz
In 1609, on behalf of the Dutch East India Company, Henry Hudson sailed his ship, the Half Moon, into New York Bay. Convinced he'd discovered a water route to Asia, Hudson continued up the now-eponymous river and claimed the area for the Dutch. The name Manhattan comes from a journal kept by one of his crew members.
Seeing the Hudson at the Alan Klotz Gallery features a highly curated selection of paintings and photographs of the river. The works on view aren't meant to be representative of the full range of depictions out there; rather they show the river from different vantage points at different times of the day in different weather using different media. Four hundred years is a long time, after all.
The gallery's proximity to the river means you can see what artists have done, then head over and see the water for yourself, perhaps even imagining for a second or two what Hudson himself must have seen. Doing so might just be the best part; it was for us.
Photo: thanks
Seeing the Hudson at the Alan Klotz Gallery features a highly curated selection of paintings and photographs of the river. The works on view aren't meant to be representative of the full range of depictions out there; rather they show the river from different vantage points at different times of the day in different weather using different media. Four hundred years is a long time, after all.
The gallery's proximity to the river means you can see what artists have done, then head over and see the water for yourself, perhaps even imagining for a second or two what Hudson himself must have seen. Doing so might just be the best part; it was for us.
Photo: thanks
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