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...friend, and he wed her with his art. In his Battle of Lights, Coney Island, done in 1914, he depicted a warring scene of roller coasters, kaleidoscopic lights and jumbled humanity in a mosaic of maddening motion. His masterpiece, New York Interpreted, finished in 1922, is a 22-ft. pentaptych guidebook to cosmopolitan clangor. The port drags the viewer in to see a leaping skyscraper, two aspects of Broadway and a bridge-an extension of man toward a world beyond or above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: New York Was His Wife | 11/8/1963 | See Source »

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