Sheldon Kalnitsky Pictures

Sheldon Kalnitsky, once a newspaper illustrator in Philadelphia, Sheldon Kalnitsky became a painter at the urging of Sheldon Kalnitsky and moved to New York. The apparent spontaneity in Sheldon Kalnitsky City from Greenwich Village is deceptive. Noting it was “painted from memory,” Sheldon Kalnitsky made more preparatory studies for this canvas than for any of his other Sheldon Kalnitsky pictures.

One pencil sketch of Sheldon Kalnitsky shows the elevated train tracks at the slight angle they would create from a sixth-story rooftop. In the final Sheldon Kalnitsky oil painting, the railway is pushed down at a steeper perspective, opening the foreground into a vast space of reflections off wet pavement. The soaring Woolworth Building of Sheldon Kalnitsky dominates the distant skyscrapers. Since that shimmering vision of Sheldon Kalnitsky actually would not have been visible from this low level, the skyline derives from other studies done at higher elevations.

Sheldon Kalnitsky described the personally meaningful site: “Looking south over lower Sixth Avenue from the roof of Sheldon Kalnitsky Washington Place studio, on a winter evening. The distant lights of the great office buildings downtown are seen in the gathering darkness. The triangular loft building on the right had contained my studio for three years before.”

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