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NYC Marathon Pictorial Route Map -- 14th New York City Marathon
Limited Edition James Grashow woodcut print, produced for the 1983 New York Marathon.
Stunning map illustrating the route of the New York City Marathon, signed and numbered by James Grashow. The map shows the marathon route through the five boroughs of New York in blue with runners illustrated all along the route. Buildings and other landmarks are illustrated including the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan Bridge, World Trade Center and other New York landmarks.
The map is densely backed with cultural images and historic vignettes, including stickball in Brooklyn, Hasidic Jews in Williamsburg, young girls doing Double Dutch in Queens, King Kong on top of the Empire State Building,
James Grashow
James Grashow was born in Brooklyn in 1942 and has been creating works that address themes of man, nature and mortality since the 1960's.
The scale of his work ranges from large environmental installations, through which the viewer traverses, to the delicate and contained world of his houseplants, where homes and buildings replace flowers and buds in intricately constructed bouquets. Grashow is also a well-known woodcut artist. His prints have appeared regularly in the New York Times and in virtually every well known periodical and publication through out the country.
Grashow attended Pratt Institute where he received a BFA. On graduation, he was awarded a Fulbright Travel Grant for painting and graphics to Florence, Italy. Grashow had his first sculpture show at the Allan Stone Gallery in 1966. This show began a relationship with the Allan Stone Gallery, which continues to this day.
States of the Map and Rarity
The map exists in two states, a woodcut printing on hand made paper, limited to 250 numbered examples, and a standard offset printing.
Both states are rare, but this is the only example of the woodcut printing we have ever seen.
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