Charles Rosen

Car Shops
1932

An oil painting by Charles Rosen depicting an industrial landscape with a variety of buildings, including a prominent round structure with a conical roof in the foreground. Smokestacks emit smoke in the background, and a river with a wooded bank is visible in the distance. The painting uses a muted color palette with an emphasis on browns, greens, and grays.

An oil painting by Charles Rosen depicting an industrial landscape with a variety of buildings, including a prominent round structure with a conical roof in the foreground. Smokestacks emit smoke in the background, and a river with a wooded bank is visible in the distance. The painting uses a muted color palette with an emphasis on browns, greens, and grays.

Not on view

Date
1932

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Oil on canvas

Dimensions
Overall: 20 1/8 × 40 1/16in. (51.1 × 101.8 cm)

Accession number
33.22

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

API
artworks/1387

Exhibitions

Breaking Ground: The Whitney’s Founding Collection

Apr 28–Sept 18, 2011
First Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting

Nov 22, 1932–Jan 5, 1933

Charles Rosen
3 works in the collection

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