loan from Daphne Williams Fox, in proud memory of her grandfather, William Carlos Williams, and in recognition of the monumental significance of One World Trade Center.
View Under The Bridge
,
oil on canvas, was commissioned in 1943 by the
Pulitzer Prize winning American poet, Williams Carlos Williams, 1883-1963. Williams
was known through his writing as the champion of everyday working people, as reflected in his poem
Paterson
. He had a keen interest in the construction and growth of New York City and, throughout his lifetime,
View Under The Bridge
hung in his home in Rutherford, New Jersey. Having remained in the family of Williams, this painting has never been publicly exhibited until the present.
Eyvind Earle was born in New York City where he first established himself as an accomplished artist through his many important one-man exhibitions. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has, as part of their permanent collection, an Eyvind Earle piece that he painted in 1940. Examples of Earle’s early New York works such as
View Under The Bridge
are rare
Given the extraordinary size and presence of this painting, its rarity as well as its subject matter, and given the respective accomplishments of Eyvind Earle and William Carlos Williams as artists from New York and New Jersey, it is considered particularly appropriate that
View Under The Bridge
be publicly displayed for the first time in honor of the immeasurable importance of the rebuilding of the World Trade Center.
