Discharged from the army for medical reasons and too depressed to stay in Paris, Cubist painter Albert Gleizes left for New York City in 1915. He painted this sweet little portrait of the city as a fragmented skyscraper. The NY Historical [Society], which is expecting its real estate developer owner to give the painting as promised, interprets the text elements extensively, but doesn’t mention how the cornice looks kind of like the Flatiron Building.
Anyway, Gleizes eventually found his way into Florine Stettheimer’s circle—and her painting of a party in her studio. That’s him in the lower left, wearing brown in front of the painting.
Albert Gleizes, New York, 1916 [nyhistory.org]