A Silktown in New Jersey

Sender: Tumblecat

Oscar F. Bluemner (1867-1938), "An Expression Of A Silktown In New Jersey" (c. 1915)

oil on canvas, 30.25" x 40", New Jersey State Museum

Oscar F. Bluemner, was a very prominent early American Mordenist and focused primarily on industrial building structures in his art. He was an architect in Chicago and New York before pursuing a career as an artist. He is best remembered for his geometric, expressive colour infused landscapes that combined nature with industry.

Silktown, wrote Tumblecat, may be Paterson (a New Jersey mill town) that had a 200-page poem written about it by William Carlos Williams, an American poet.