Harry McCormick "Boerum Hill Cafe" Brooklyn Inn Bar Oil Painting Gold Leaf 43"

Description

Henry McCormick original oil painting on canvas, titled Boerum Hill Cafe. It features a solitary woman deep in thought as she enjoys a glass of red wine at the historic bar. The Brooklyn Inn is one of Brooklyn's oldest bars standing at the corner of Bergen and Hoyt Streets in Boerum Hill. It opened in 1885 and was 100% German owned throughout the years until 1956 when it sold to an Italian American. The entire network of architects, contractors, woodworkers, liquor license officials ann social clubs were all German too.

Owner Anton Zeiner converted the original house into a bar in 1885. After he died, his widow, Marie Zeiner, added the back room in 1892 and the woodwork. She had a huge debt to the brewery and ultimately sold it to them in 1896, and then tenant German bartenders ran it. In 1912, the Heissenbuttel family ran it and later owned it in 1919. It stayed open during Prohibition and secretly sold alcohol, once being caught and shut down for eight months. It was owned by Mickey Castellano in the 1960s and then a few others in the 1970s. Some neighbors remember Karen Hubert and her husband Leonard Allison ran a restaurant there in the early 1980s called Hubert’s. The current owners bought it in 1990.

Harry was famous for painting the interiors of restaurants, bars and hotels - particularly in New York City. Based on the 19th century architecture.

Harry McCormick (Bayonne, New Jersey, 1942-Jacksonville, Florida, July 2023 is a contemporary American painter noted for his closely observed renderings of shadow, light, and reflections in interior spaces. His paintings often capture one or two solitary individuals in moments of introspection. He is primarily self-taught as an artist although he studied etching at Pratt Institute.

Condition

Gentle wear to frame

Dimensions

43" x 2.5" x 32" / Sans Frame - 39.5" x 29.5" (W x D x H)