Sep 27, 2018 - Sale 2486

Sale 2486 - Lot 344

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(NEW YORK CITY.) Group of 3 watercolor designs for highway overpasses in Queens from the Robert Moses era. Watercolors on paper, laid down on later illustration board, each about 14 x 26 inches; minor tears and repairs, labels apparently removed from caption areas, minor dampstaining to the Woodbine Street piece. Queens, NY, 1937, 1940 and undated

Additional Details

"Proposed Parkway Passing over Entrance to Fort Totten," depicts an overpass of what would become the Cross-Island Parkway in the far northeastern corner of Queens, October 1937 "Linden Boulevard Overpass at Southern Parkway," depicting an apparently unbuilt intersection with North Conduit Avenue and Dumont Avenue, possibly in the Ozone Park neighborhood in Queens, undated "Woodbine Street Passing over Long Island RR to Metropolitan Ave & 67th St.," August 1940. No such intersection exists today, but it would be near the Middle Village stop on the M line in Queens.