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New York: The Little Church around the Corner by Dorothea A. Dreier, 1920
Yale University Art Gallery · wikidata.org
Public domain
Apparently her sister ran one of the first modern-art societies in America, alongside Marcel Duchamp of all people, and a lot of paintings from that circle — this one included — ended up in the same collection.
St. Mark’s in the Bowery by Childe Hassam, 1910
Yale University Art Gallery · wikidata.org
Public domain
The church is real and still standing — apparently one of the oldest in New York, with Peter Stuyvesant buried underneath it. They say the painter did a whole run of city churches around this time, one after another.