


Grades 9–12 Visual Arts Standard 4 Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and cultures + Create an artwork that interprets the voice of their own community, and then write about it. + Explain how Joseph Stella and Walker Evans utilized composition to create their interpretations of New York City. + Analyze the composition of Joseph Stella’s paintings and Walker Evans’s photograph of the Brooklyn Bridge. + Describe art styles that influenced artists Joseph Stella and Walker Evans.

+ Describe New York City during the early twentieth century. Four worksheets to stimulate thinking are included.Īt the end of this lesson, students will be able to: Henry’s short story “The Voice of the City.” Then, they create an artwork interpreting the voice of their community and write a comparison of their community’s voice to that of early twentieth-century New York City. In this lesson, students view Walker Evans’s photograph Brooklyn Bridge and Joseph Stella’s paintings Brooklyn Bridge and Voice of the City Interpreted. New York dazzled and overwhelmed newcomers with its bright lights, towering skyscrapers, omnipresent sounds, and crush of humanity. Henry wrote their impressions of the essence, or voice, of this mighty city. What was the voice of New York City in the early twentieth century? Italian immigrant Joseph Stella painted and O.
