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West 34th/Penn Station Subway Art 5

Topic Categories: My PicturesNYC Subway ArtNYC Through My EyeNYC lifePhotography and cameras
Posted on: July 3, 2008 8:59 PM, by "GrrlScientist"

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This is the last artwork from this station that I will show you -- tomorrow I will feature a new (to you) subway station!

Circus of Garden Delights.

West 34th Street/Penn Station Subway tile mosaic art #5
as seen at NYC's West 34th Street stop at 8th for the A, C and E trains.

Artist: Eric Fischl, 2001.

Image: GrrlScientist 2008 [larger view].

According to the artist, this subway station artwork "depicts a commuter being drawn into the bizarre and surprising world of the circus, meeting animals, clowns, acrobats and fire-breathers on his way to work."

I have photographed tile artworks from several NYC subway stations now, so far, all are westside Manhattan subway lines, including Chambers Street (A & C trains), Houston Street (1 train), Pennsylvania "Penn" station (1, 2 & 3 trains) [subway art archives] and, my favorite subway station of all, the American Museum of Natural History station at 81st and Central Park West (B & C trains) [AMNH archives].

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1

Thanks, I've really enjoyed this station. But I do want to know why people have thrown rotten tomatoes at this last piece.

Posted by: Bob O'H | July 4, 2008 4:17 AM

2

The _Alice in Wonderland_ mosaics at 50th Street coming?

(just a guess, you seem to be riding up and down the West Side)

You make me homesick. I've been living upstate for years, but I'm a New Yorker born and bred.

Posted by: Another Kevin | July 4, 2008 8:04 PM

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