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Florine Stettheimer's 'Cathedrals of Art' Celebrates and Critiques New York's Secular Shrines. Here Are 3 Things You Might Not Know About It


The Cathedral of Art (1942–1944, unfinished). Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
When Florine Stettheimer died in 1944, at the age of 72, the New York artist, poet, and salonnière, was still putting the final touches on
The Cathedrals of Art, the last in a series of four monumental paintings devoted to New York’s cultural, social, and economic temples. Identical in scale, each painting measures five feet tall by just over four feet wide. 
The series, which includes 
The Cathedrals of Fifth Avenue (1931)
,  and 
The Cathedrals of Wall Street (1939), was a winkingly aware homage to places of worship in the city she’d called home for all her adult life. For the deeply private artist,  ....

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