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| Sunday Afternoon NYC |
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Corner of Hudson & Vestry |
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Heading Downtown |
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Mercer Street |
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| Hotel Iroquois |
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Just Past the Vanguard |
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Off 6th Avenue |
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Tony first went to New York in 1995, to meet head on the Gotham City of his Batman comics, and the Manhattan of the movies. His series of paintings explore the rich visual complexities and drama of the architecture, the people and streets of Manhattan. He revels in the richness of the urban environment with its edge to edge buildings and imagery.
His own idiosyncratic take on New York is interlinked with his interest in jazz. For Just Past the Vanguard, he stood in the same spot John Coltrane stood for the cover photograph of Live at the Village Vanguard, to envisage the same view the musician would have seen from that particular position. A sense of place and time of day, are both key elements of the work. |
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