tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666195730630249633.post5197062929881380049..comments2024-03-25T17:49:41.408-07:00Comments on Salem Breakfast on Bikes: Constance Fowler's Water Works and our Smaller BridgesSalem Breakfast on Bikeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15618055627843335993noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666195730630249633.post-54323992629827611782013-07-02T23:02:10.973-07:002013-07-02T23:02:10.973-07:00In his notes to the Constance Fowler show at Halli...In his notes to the Constance Fowler show at Hallie Ford this month, Emeritus Professor Curator Roger Hull says:<br /><br /><i>Fowler judged Salem of the 1930s to be one of the nation's most beautiful towns and continued to focus on subjects in and around the capital city in the 1940s.</i>South Commercial Street <i>(ca. 1940) depicts a man leaning on the railing of a bridge located just south of Trade Street, near the present day Civic Center. In the spring of 1913 this bridge was destroyed to make way for a new one, and the site is otherwise much changed since 1940 when the bridge overlooked the roundhouse of the Salem Water Department. Fowler found in the bridge railing, roundhouse, and tower an almost European vignette, reminiscent of scenes by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Utrillo" rel="nofollow">Maurice Utrillo</a>. But her distinctive treatment of the tree, with its angled trunk and billowing foliage that fuses with the energetic stream of clouds, injects a cyclonic element into the otherwise tranquil depiction.</i>Salem Breakfast on Bikeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15618055627843335993noreply@blogger.com