A Rainy Day, New York

Brian Paul Clamp writes, "The present work is an earlier version of Fifth Avenue at Twenty-third Street (1895, The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio). Compositionally, A Rainy Day, New York and Fifth Avenue differ only in the occupants Robinson depicts on the street, with the angle of view, the periphery architecture, the street lights, and even the fire hydrant in the center of the scene laid in precisely the same positions." He continues, "A Rainy Day, New York, although it is clearly a color sketch, is a much more characteristic (and in some respects a more successful) example of the artist's work. Painted in blues and grays, highlighted with touches of rose and white, Robinson evokes the motion of street traffic and the transient quality of the city's afternoon light." (Owen Gallery, Theodore Robinson, exhibtion catalogue, New York, 2000, p. 86)

This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work being compiled by Ira Spanierman and Sona Johnston.