Untitled (Spuyten Duyvil)

During the Great Depression, Faye produced an impressive body of lithographs for Roosevelt's Federal Art Project. The artist roamed the streets of New York City and captured scenes ranging from unpretentious street life to modern industry along the waterways. Faye was fascinated by the technological triumphs of the era, evident in his rendering of a train speeding along the turn from the Hudson River around Spuyten Duyvil and also in drawings of the construction of the Henry Hudson Bridge above (also in the Hudson River Museum collection). When the Congress phased out the Federal Art programs in the early 1940s, many artists were out of work. Faye abandoned art for cartography and a job at Time Inc.