In the Elevate, 1916
Oil on canvas
Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco
Transportation on Columbus Avenue consisted of an elevated structure, along which a train came roaring by every few minutes and stopped at stations on 72nd and 86th Streets. It went all the way down to Columbus Circle, to 42nd Street, where we got off on that momentous day in 1918 to view the Armistice parade on Fifth Avenue. That was the origin of my painting The Armistice Parade. The elevated train prompted the painting, The Elevated, with my mother in the foreground and my father reading a newspaper.
— Theresa Bernstein, The Journal
