Central Park Summer Impression

Central Park Summer Impression

Once upon a time, on a summer afternoon in Central Park...

Know what's different, besides the impressionistic treatment?

The Savoy Plaza Hotel (third tall building from the left) had not yet met the wrecker's ball.
The distinctive structure at 5th and 59th would soon be replaced along the Fifth Avenue
Central Park skyline by the modern monolithic mass of the GM Building.

As to the Grande Dame hotels that ARE still part of the skyline: That's the Pierre rising above the trees
on the left, the Sherry Netherland in the center, and peeking through the trees on the right, The Plaza.

As the original of this scene, captured on an old Ektachrome, "rediscovered" while scanning long-unviewed slides, no longer
exists in reality, I followed the "Digital Muse" with the desire to depict a New York moment that lives on in romantic reverie.

http://thunderflakes.blogspot.com/2010/07/vanderbilt-ambassadoror-savoy-plaz.html

The design is available in my range of custom printed Note Cards.

Design/Text ©Steve Ember