Artist Ken Rush looks back at his painting of the twin towers under construction, 30 years before 9/11.
NEW YORK -- There's a clear autumn day, more than half a century ago, etched in artist Ken Rush's memory.'It was a flawlessly clear blue sky, brilliant, brilliant light,' he said recently. 'I suddenly had this view of the Brooklyn Bridge, on the one hand coming over from Manhattan, and then the two spires of the Trade Center, and they were under construction.
'I watched the buildings fall from the window,' he recalls seeing the aftermath of the attack from his Brooklyn school building. 'It was inconceivable.'The painting was donated to the Sept. 11 museumBy then, Rush had lost track of the painting, having lent it to a friend decades earlier. Once back in his possession, he displayed it in the window of his Carroll Gardens studio.'That painting was serendipity in terms of how it came into our collection.
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