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In the Elevated
1916
Working at a time when women artists experienced gender prejudice, Theresa Bernstein often concealed her first name so that her work would be judged fairly by all-male exhibition juries. She became known informally as the ninth member of the group of realist painters known as The Eight.Â
This work depicts a passenger car on the Ninth Avenue Elevated railway, which Bernstein took between her parents’ apartment on West 94th Street and her studio on West 55th Street in New York City. Like Honoré Daumier’s Third-Class Carriage, on view at the Legion of Honor, In the Elevated captures the experience of modern city dwellers in close physical proximity but psychologically isolated from one another.
- Artist
- Theresa F. Bernstein (1890-2002)
- Title
- In the Elevated
- Date
- 1916
- Object Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm); Frame: 40 1/2 x 50 x 2 1/2 in. (102.9 x 127 x 6.4 cm)
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase, American Art Trust Fund
- Accession Number
- 2011.2
