[From the Community Collection, a public trust in Agincourt, Iowa]

PEDERSON, E. [dates unknown]

“Jewels of the Night”

ca1930

oil on canvas / 27.4 inches x 18.3 inches (image)

Chicagoans will easily recognize this view of their city, principally the tower of the Chicago Temple, home of First United Methodist Church, at the corner of Washington and Clark Streets. Two blocks beyond is a station on the Wabash stretch of the Loop, elevated railway. For business and cultural connections—higher education, for example—America’s “Second City” may have been a greater influence than Des Moines or Omaha.

The artist, identified only as “E. Peterson”, is unfamiliar and may have been associated with the former artists’ colony at Sturm & Drang. The work itself was acquired at an estate sale.