Description: Jill Gill is an artist who is known for her Lost New York watercolors and ink paintings of demolished buildings and historic architecture.
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A love letter to ‘the city that was’ that exuberantly makes the case for preserving the historic building fabric of New York City.
Jill Gill is the rare painter who can write and the more rare writer who can paint, and she does both with charm and grace, and with an eye for details unseen by mere mortals. Her Lost New York series makes the city found again. —John Tauranac
Do not be misled by the jaunty, playful quality of Jill Gill’s watercolors. They are fun to look at, but they tell the profound story of a city evolving, not always for the better. Jill Gill has recorded New York with love and insight, and her book is at once an elegy, a personal tale, and an exquisite historical document. —Paul Goldberger