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| Niagara Falls (Grunewald) - San Francisco 2014 |
Like the painters of the Hudson River School Niagara
Falls , the ultimate symbol of that concept, and made
at least 11 versions of it, two of which were once attributed to John
Vanderlyn.
Yet Grunewald didn't always strive for the most romantic
interpretations. A landscape of the Delaware Water Gap is placid and bucolic,
while another of the Lehigh River gorge at
Mauch Chunk (now Jim Thorpe) is downright pedestrian, considering the Alpine character
of the scenery there.
Grunewald wasn't an inspired painter or always an especially
graceful one, and some of his work seems labored and formulaic.
Well, maybe. Anyway, Mike liked these early panorama mode paintings seen in the DeYoung Museum.
[Add: and in a nice Nabokovian coincidence, what should appear in the Jan. 27th issue of the New Yorker but a poem by Alfred Corn titled "In the Grunewald Cafe:"
Where do slackers go to get their jollies? / Where do they spend hours every day? / Where commit their most moronic follies? / In the Grunewald Cafe.]
[Add: and in a nice Nabokovian coincidence, what should appear in the Jan. 27th issue of the New Yorker but a poem by Alfred Corn titled "In the Grunewald Cafe:"
Where do slackers go to get their jollies? / Where do they spend hours every day? / Where commit their most moronic follies? / In the Grunewald Cafe.]
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