The Ice Plant, on the Hudson River, New York, 1916
oil on canvas
48.3 x 61 cm
signed with monogram, inscribed ‘NY’, and dated ‘1916’
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The Ice Plant, on the Hudson River, New York, 1916
Provenance:
Alexander Ballard
Exhibition History:
New York, Arlington Gallery, 1917;
San Francisco, San Francisco Art Association, 1917;
Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 1917;
University of Columbia, 1919;
London, Dorian Leigh Gallery, From East to West, 1922;
London, Fine Art Society, Homage to Maxwell Armfield, 1970;
Southampton Art Gallery, Birmingham Art Gallery, London, Fine Art Society, Maxwell Armfield 1881-1972, June-November 1978, number 29;
London, The Sammy Ofer Centre, London Business School, Metropolis, 23 July 2018 and ongoing
Literature:
Maxwell Armfield, mss notebook I, opus 89, 1916; Maxwell Armfield, An Artist in America, Methuin & Co Ltd, London 1925, illustrated in colour opposite page 12
Maxwell Armfield was inspired by his visit to New York, finding the clarity and sharpness of the light ‘as keen as a razor’. He captured the wintry landscape with a limited palette of colours, emphasising the scale and desolation of the ice plant factory against the broad sweep of the Hudson River.
