Signed and dated 1928, this small mixed media on paper is a Jazz-Age modernist night city — black arcs cutting across silver towers, white flecks of falling snow scattered across the dark ground.

The style is traceable to Joseph Stella’s depiction of New York Interpreted (1920–22), with the radiating “lines of force” of Italian Futurism behind it — Balla and Depero — and the machine-age geometry of Precisionists like Louis Lozowick. The flat opaque color laid over a black field, plus the metallic silver passages, points to Art Deco graphic and applied-arts training: poster, textile, and stained-glass method rather than easel method.

Signed lower right “Rose L. Stern / 1928.” Presented in a later silver-tone frame with double mat. The artwork is 8” x 10” and the frame is 13” x 15.5” see photos for condition