The Plaza after the Rain, Paul Cornoyer, 1908

Tones of brown and gray dominate this view of New York City on a rainy day. Although there is a plaza of the same name in Brooklyn, this scene shows the Grand Army Plaza in Manhattan. To the right lies the southeast corner of Central Park. Visible between the trees, a shimmer of bronze and gold indicates the presence of Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s statue of Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman.