...''there had been giants in the land before my time."
The distinguished Brooklyn Heights artist Carol Hamann looks at the Bridge, beyond the National Society's Fulton Ferry Landing Museum and finds both good. Ms. Hamann's radiant feeling for the Bridge stems from a virtually daily communion with it, in all weathers, over the years. "It is always familiar," she has said, "and always new." "1883-The Brooklyn Bridge Upon Its Centennial-1983," by Charles Raskob Robinson. The Bridge soars over river traffic as a serene but ever challenging presence in this delightful study by a distinguished contemporary marine artist. Charles Robinson, a New York banker who serves as Hon. Treasurer ofthe American Society of Marine Artists, is a haunter of &st River purlieus and longtime aficionado of the Bridge. Here he has shown it in May sunlight, observing the very season and hour of its opening in a world quite different from the world around it now. The topsail schooner Lindo, slipping downstream to put in at South Street Seaport, is at home beneath that upspringing roadway and those solemn arches, as are the vessels oftoday's vintage passing downstream on the left. A signed, limited edition print (image size 22 0 "x 15 ")may be purchased by mail from the National Society for $90-halfthis sum being a tax deductible contribution to the Society thanks to the generosity of the artist. Prints also available at the National Society's Fulton Ferry Landing Museum, and aboard the ship Wavertree at South Street Seaport Museum.
SEA HIS1DRY, SUMMER 1983
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