Harvey Dinnerstein’s New York is a compilation of more than 80 years of painting and sketching focusing on Dinnerstein’s encounters in the parks, subways, and streets of the city where he lived and worked.

A National Academician and lifelong teacher, Dinnerstein’s devotion to representational art established him as one of the post-war era’s masters of realism. He came of age in an era that embraced abstraction above all else, but, from the beginning, Dinnerstein operated outside of this arena. His drawing and painting skills are derived from humanist traditions of the past responding to the complexity of contemporary life.

Harvey Dinnerstein’s New York includes intimate images of his friends and family, drawings, pastels, and oils focused on New York’s subway – works depicting the artist’s daily experience as he traveled from his home in Brooklyn to his classroom at the Art Students League in midtown Manhattan, as well as paintings of New York’s iconic structures and mythic street scenes.