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Tag: american art history

Posted inHistorical Greenpoint

Williamsburg Roots of David Smith, Who Made First Welded Sculptures

by Geoff CobbApril 26, 2019April 26, 2019

For a working-class industrial area, North Brooklyn has played an outsized influence on American sculpture. The great Western artist Fredrick Remington cast many of his iconic western sculptures at the […]

Posted in(Not)Forgotten Greenpoint

New Artists Revive Greenpoint’s First Industry

by Geoff CobbJanuary 29, 2019

  Long before Greenpoint had the shipbuilding, oil refining or sugar refining industries, ceramicists had established Greenpoint as America’s first ceramic capital and it is more than a little ironic […]



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