Central-Park, Winter: The Skating Pond Yale University Art Gallery

1862

By the mid-nineteenth century, the continued urbanization of Manhattan raised the demand for open space in the city. In 1853 Central Park was officially established, and by 1858 the land between 5th Avenue and 8th Avenue extending from 59th Street to 110th Street was purchased. The intensely competitive commission for the park’s design was awarded in 1858 to the partnership of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. The park immediately filled a social and recreational role in the life of the city, to which these lithographs attest.

Medium: Colored lithograph
Dimensions: sheet: 21 15/16 × 31 7/8 in. (55.8 × 81 cm)
Credit Line: Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
Accession Number: 1946.9.1616
Geography: Made in United States
Culture: American
Period: 19th century
Classification: Prints
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Provenance

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection, to 1946; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Helen A. Cooper et al., Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2008), 320–21, no. 204, ill.

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

lithographs, lithography, paper (fiber product), watercolor

Subject

ice skating, winter

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