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Arthur Morris Cohen — Madison Ave. & 7th Street
Arthur Morris Cohen

Madison Ave. & 7th Street

1980

This oil painting depicts an urban street scene viewed from ground level, with tall buildings flanking a narrow passage that opens onto a bright yellow structure crowned with a green roof. The composition uses strong linear perspective to draw the viewer's eye down the receding street toward a luminous blue sky, creating a sense of depth and architectural drama. Cohen employs a muted palette of browns, grays, and earth tones for the surrounding buildings, which contrast sharply with the warm yellow and cool blue elements that anchor the composition. The work exemplifies mid-twentieth-century American regionalism, reflecting the artist's engagement with the urban landscape as a subject for modernist formal exploration.

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions

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Provincetown Art Association & Museum Benefit Auction

May 16, 2026

Estimate: $1,000$1,500

Lot 64

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Arthur Morris Cohen, Madison Ave. & 7th Street, 1980

This oil painting depicts an urban street scene viewed from ground level, with tall buildings flanking a narrow passage that opens onto a bright yellow structure crowned with a green roof. The composition uses strong linear perspective to draw the viewer's eye down the receding street toward a luminous blue sky, creating a sense of depth and architectural drama. Cohen employs a muted palette of browns, grays, and earth tones for the surrounding buildings, which contrast sharply with the warm yellow and cool blue elements that anchor the composition. The work exemplifies mid-twentieth-century American regionalism, reflecting the artist's engagement with the urban landscape as a subject for modernist formal exploration.

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
27.9 x 30.5 cm
Year
1980
Seen at
Eldred's, East Dennis, Massachusetts, United States

Related themes

Blue Sky, New York City, Realist, Urban Color, Perspective, Muted Palette, Architectural, Modernist, Geometric Form, Street Scene, American Regionalism, Composition Study, Oil Painting, Urban Landscape, American Art, Mid-Century, Warm Tones, Figurative, Yellow Building, Cape Cod School