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Roth came to the United States with his parents as a young child and studied painting at the National Academy of Design and the New York School of Art. He began his professional career as a landscape painter, contributing regularly to exhibitions at the National Academy and the Pennsylvania Academy. A resident of New York and a frequent visitor to Europe, he depicted cities and their buildings, generally avoiding the human figure. James D. Smillie introduced him to etching in about 1910, and he participated in the exhibitions of several organizations that promoted etching as a fine art. His etching of the New York skyline from Brooklyn Heights echoes William Guy Wall’s view of a century earlier, on view nearby, but the space is foreshortened and the city seems to rear up from the river in the vertical format suggested by the great height of the skyscrapers.
Georgia Barnhill, 2014
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