Description: Bicycle riders in Riverside Park, New York
Comment: A great and lively depiction of people having fun nearly 130 years ago. In my book, Smedley is under-appreciated. In his day though he was one of the most popular of the New York illustrators… eventually becoming President of The Society of Illustrators.
Price: $5,000 (includes domestic shipping)
| Artist | William T. Smedley (1858-1920) |
| Caption | “An Afternoon Spin on Riverside Drive, New York” |
| Condition | Overall good, a couple scattered losses (as though the glass was broken at one time) and some areas where the gouache has changed color with age. Both of those issues would be readily treatable. Period frame… mat calls for replacement. |
| Medium | Watercolor, gouache and colored pencil |
| Publication Information | Double-page spread in Harper’s Weekly, 1896. |
| Literature | Riverside Park: The Splendid Sliver by Edward Grimm, published by Columbia University Press, 2007. The Harper’s spread is reproduced there, not the art itself. |
| Signature | Signed and dated (1896) lower right |
| Size | 18.75 x 26.5” |
