Cities Seen
Metropolitan images from America and Europe
  1. AMSTERDAM: Frisius, Old St. Anthony's Gate
  2. AMSTERDAM: Orlik, Festtage in Amsterdam
  3. BORDEAUX: Lalanne, À Bordeaux (Vue Generale)
  4. BRUSSELS: Vraes, Rendering and Plan of a Railroad Viaduct
  5. FLORENCE: Pennell, Mecato Vecchio (The Old Market)
  6. FRANKFURT-AM-MAIN: Webster, Drei Koenigsstrasse
  7. JERUSALEM: Bouttats, View in Jerusalem
  8. LONDON: Carter, Air Street (in Old Regent Street)
  9. LONDON: Oakley, Ye Olde Dick Whittington
  10. LONDON: Pennell, Knightsbridge
  11. LONDON: Renouard, The Old Clothes Market, Houndsditch
  12. MESSINA: Casembrot, Harbor of Messina (Sicily)
  13. NAPLES: Doré, The Triumphal Entry of Garibaldi Into Naples
  14. NAPLES: Strang, Castel Nuovo
  15. NEW YORK: Born, Wall Street
  16. NEW YORK: Simonsen, Queensborough Bridge
  17. NEW YORK, Jones, East Side Jungle
  18. NEW YORK: Lewis, The Great Shadow
  19. NEW YORK: Marin, Downtown, the El
  20. NEW YORK: Marsh, East Tenth Street Jungle
  21. NEW YORK, Dolice, 5th Avenue and 55th Street
  22. NEW YORK: Spruance, Subway Playground
  23. NEW YORK: Torre-Bueno, Tug Boat by the Hell Gate Bridge
  24. NEW YORK: Walkowitz, Abstract Cityscape
  25. PARIS: Chahine, Saint-Ouen, Vue des Fortifications de Paris
  26. PARIS: Lepère, Quai de l'Hôtel de Ville
  27. PARIS: Lepère, Le Grand Marché aux Pommes
  28. PARIS:, Pavil, Place de la Concorde
  29. PRAGUE: Simon, Neruda Street at the Foot of the Castle
  30. ROME: Bone, The Trevi Fountain
  31. ROME: Montagu, Veduta di Piazza di Montecavallo (Quirinale)
  32. ROUEN: Pennell, The Flower Market and the Butter Tower
  33. SAN FRANCISCO: Winkler, Large Ross Alley
  34. SAN FRANCISCO: Winkler, The Tunnel
  35. SIENA: Tushingham, Torre del Mangia
  36. STOCKHOLM: Bone, Windy Night, Stockholm
  37. TANGIER: Hollar, A Part of Tangier from Above
  38. UTRECHT: Drewes, Utrecht
  39. VENICE: Moran, Venice
  40. VENICE: Webster, The Church of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari
  41. VIENNA: Singer, Am Hof
  42. VIENNA: Tuszynski, The Hauptallee in the Prater, Vienna --Then an

38. Werner Drewes
(1899-1985)
Utrecht

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UTRECHT: Drewes, Utrecht

Utrecht

Etching, 1929, Rose 154 only state, 244 x 163 mm. Fine, strong impression on brown wove paper with good margins, signed and titled in pencil. This is one of the rarer of Drewes' prints, issued in an edition of 15 and the plate destroyed. Essentially a sketch on copper, it is preoccupied with strong contrasts of light and shadow and, while miles away from his meticulously drawn later prints, it does prefigure his work in architectural abstraction. Apart from the title, one might recognize the location only by the distinctive bell tower. Utrecht is an ancient city and Drewes allowed that to come through even in his search for other meanings.