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Christopher Street between Greenwich Avenue and Gay Street, December 22, 1926.

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Mirror on the road.

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Repair shop, Christopher Street, 1948-50.

Photo: Berenice Abbott via the Howard Greenberg Gallery

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Beulah R. Bettersworth, Christopher Street, Greenwich Village, 1934, oil on canvas. It was included in the exhibition called A New Deal for Artists at the Corcoran Gallery, which featured WPA artists. President Roosevelt liked it so much he took it for display in the White House, where it stayed until 1965. It now hangs in the Smithsonian American Art Museum

From the Smithsonian’s web site:

A wintry corner of Greenwich Village lives in this painting as Beulah Bettersworth knew it when she and her husband inhabited 95 Christopher Street, a block away. Closely observed details draw the viewer into the painting to join Bettersworth’s neighbors hurrying through the slushy snow, catching a whiff of tobacco from the cigar store in the foreground. Snow melts from the roof of St. Veronica’s Catholic Church, whose towers are visible behind the Ninth Avenue “L” station. The elevated train station had been an elegant adaptation of a Swiss chalet when it was built in 1867, but by Bettersworth’s time it was an aging relic soon to be torn down. Like the rusting “L,” the famous bohemian artistic colony that had enlivened Greenwich Village in the early twentieth century faded as the decades passed. Yet artists like Bettersworth still found homes there and with the advent of the Depression, low rents attracted a new generation of poverty-stricken young poets and painters to the Village’s storied garrets.

Beulah Bettersworth lived on Christopher Street in New York’s Greenwich Village. She worked for the Works Progress Administration during the Depression, and in this scene she captured the lively block of her street between Hudson and Greenwich avenues. Commuters bundled in winter coats make their way through the snow to catch trains bound for Newark and Hoboken.

Source: Smithsonian American Art Museum