Tom SanfordUptown Visions

An outdoor work on Audubon Terrace by Harlem-based painter Tom Sanford, picturing summer street life in Upper Manhattan, from music to pickup basketball.

Commissioned for Audubon Terrace through the Hispanic Society’s partnership with the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, the work draws on Sanford’s own life as a Harlem resident, rendering the games, music and crowds of Uptown summers in his bold, pop-inflected style.

The piece also answers Joaquín Sorolla’s Vision of Spain murals inside the museum, timed to the hundredth anniversary of their installation, casting contemporary Upper Manhattan as a counterpart to Sorolla’s scenes of Spanish life. It is the fourth commission in the Art on Audubon Terrace series, following past artists Marta Chilindron, Rose Deler and Oscar Caballero.

Full details at hispanicsociety.org