Oh! how I’ve been longing to get out of the studio and back on the streets of New York to paint. This morning is March 1st and I put down my brushes and called it quits on this painting. I’ve been manifesting spring time, pushing the colors of green and gold cross the canvas and letting my imagination run toward warmth and promise.

I began with this painting really feeling the Art Deco qualities of the New Yorker hotel. The sky is a motif common in Art Deco, as a sunburst of green and gold sunshine. A light cloud cover and the quintessential New York pigeons flying around the top of this iconic monument to Art Deco.

Unfortunately built in 1930 during the great depression the hotel was touted as being fully booked even when it wasn’t. This created a “velvet rope” effect, everyone wanted to stay there!

By the 1940-50s The New Yorker was one of the most popular hotels in the city, drawing famous athletes such as the Brooklyn Dodgers and Muhammad Ali, to political figures Franklin D. Roosevelt, Robert Kennedy, and Fidel Castro, and celebrities like Joan Crawford, Lana Turner, and Mickey Rooney. Here the who’s who of New York City would pass their nights in The Terrace Room, watching the famous ice shows and listening to top performers of the day, like Benny Goodman and Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey. The New Yorker even housed the scientific genius Nikola Tesla until his death in 1943

Now that the weather is getting warmer you can find me backpacking around the city and setting up on sidewalks to paint. I look forward to sharing my next paintings here with you at daiZnyc.com

🙏🏼Peace. 💙💛

Daisy