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Two drawings of the New York Bloomingdale Hospital in New York City. One of the oldest in the United States, this asylum started out in the cellar of the north wing of New York Hospital, which was a general hospital. It got its own building in 1808, the New York Lunatic Asylum, which was renamed as the Bloomingdale Asylum in 1821. The modern descendent of this asylum is the Westchester division of the New York Hospital in White Plains: the asylum moved there in 1894. These are pencil drawings, 16" x 12", in lovely gilded frames and most likely done by a resident, thus truly representative of "art brute".
$2500 the pair
Drawings of New York Bloomingdale Hospital
