Ilonka Karasz

Children Snow Sledding in Central Park - New Yorker Cover Study

circa 1930 - 1960

A festive crowd exploits a rare snow fall in New York. Colorful people fill the picture in an "All-over" composition as if it were an energenic Jackson Pollock drip and splash pai...

Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, unframed. Other sizes available, printed later, other sizes available

Joyful moment is captured as snow lovers exploit a rare moment when New York's central park becomes a winter wonderland Signed and dated lower right, 2/15 unframed, other size ava...

Immigrant children from New York's Lower East Side are joyfully captured whizzing down on a slide. From the window of a tenement building, a lone adult with child witnesses the foli...

Signed in pencil. This scene is a hundred years old but if we have snow this year it can easily be recreated.

Alice Kent Stoddard 1885-1976 Sledders (circa 1950-1960) Black chalk on card Image Dimensions: 19.75 x 16 inches (50.2 x 40.6 cm) Framed Dimensions: 26.5 x 22.3 inches Signed lower right: Alice Kent Stoddard Alice Kent Stoddard was born in Connecticut, but spent much of her career as an artist in Philadelphia and on Monhegan Island in Maine. She studied with Thomas Eakins, William Merritt Chase and Thomas Anshutz at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, as well as at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women. While serving with the YMCA in France during World War I, Stoddard executed many drawings and paintings of the battlefield. However, she is most widely recognized for her bold landscapes and marine paintings of Maine...

With a studied hand, Sloan captures the human theater of a snow-covered Central Park filled with bundled-up New Yorkers, sledding, walking, chatting, and caring for children. The exp...

The painting is a scene of children sledding in Central Park New York. It is a bright sunny winter day with an unusually blue sky. :: Painting :: Cont...