SUNDAY Feature on ART of Architecture -by Gautam Shah
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Colin Campbell Cooper Jr. (1856-1937) was an American Impressionist architectural landscape painter. He was an ardent traveller, and has drawn numerous skyscrapers and urban architecture scenes of New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago. He was as proficient in watercolours as he was in oils. He often created small well-detailed study in watercolour, before the full size oil painting. Cooper used both, the colour and texture with seamless transition. Cooper’s wife Emma Lampert, was herself a noted artist.
Cooper said that he was "greatly interested in the skyscraper buildings in Broad Street. It was intensely interesting to watch the freakishness disappear from those queer towering structures in the glory of the right kind of light" –
"one of the points that most strikes me about this view up Broad Street is the dramatic contrast between the old, low type of buildings ... and the great skyscrapers. My pictures are built on these contrasts."
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