
New York Harbor
Edmund W. Greacen (1877-1949)
Edmund W. Greacen was born and raised in New York City, where he became a master of American Impressionism. He was well known for shimmering landscapes and figure paintings of young women, often using vibrant, diffused and muted color. Greacen is noted as one of the founders of the 1924 Grand Central Art School in New York City.
New York Harbor was created in 1915 with oils on a 16 by 11-7/8 inch board and is signed “Edmund Greacen, l.r.”