Friday, December 19, 2025

Central

Anonymous Photographer
Bethesda Fountain, Central Park, New York
ca. 1870
albumen prints (stereograph)
Library of Congress, Washington DC


Dave Heath
Bethesda Fountain, Central Park, New York City
ca. 1957
gelatin silver print
Minneapolis Institute of Art

Bruce Davidson
Central Park
1991
C-print
Menil Collection, Houston

Lois Conner
Central Park, New York City
1986
platinum-palladium print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Mitch Epstein
American Elm, Central Park, New York
2011
gelatin silver print
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Fritz Henle
Central Park South
ca. 1950
gelatin silver print
Brooklyn Museum

Edward van Altena
Nature Class in Central Park
American Museum of Natural History, New York

ca. 1915
hand-colored lantern slide
Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC

Rollie McKenna
Central Park, New York
ca. 1950
gelatin silver print
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Tod Papageorge
Central Park
1979
gelatin silver print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Larry Fink
Central Park
1962
gelatin silver print
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Joel Meyerowitz
Untitled (Central Park Scene)
1969
gelatin silver print
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Garry Winogrand
Bethesda Fountain, Central Park, New York City, Easter Sunday
1973
gelatin silver print
Princeton University Art Museum

Childe Hassam
Beech Trees and Obelisk, Central Park
1931
etching
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Anonymous Printmaker
Feeding Swans in Central Park
1874
chromolithograph
National Museum of American History, Washington DC

Joel Sternfeld
Central Park, north of the Obelisk,
behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1993
C-print
Art Institute of Chicago

Christo (Christo Javacheff)
The Gates, Project for Central Park, New York City
2003
photo-collage and mixed media on paper
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Claes Oldenburg
Moving Pool Balls -
Proposed Colossal Monument for Central Park, N.Y.C.

1967
graphite and watercolor on paper
Menil Collection, Houston

Epigram

There is one story
that Virtue has her dwelling place above rock walls hard to climb
with a grave chorus of light-footed nymphs attendant about her,
and she is not to be looked upon by the eyes of every mortal,
only by one who with sweat, with clenched concentration
and courage, climbs to the peak.

– Simonides (556-468 BC), translated by Richmond Lattimore (1960)