ABSTRACT
When Emilio Sanchez first enrolled at the Art Students League, he was staying at the Biltmore Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, and then at some point in the mid-1940s, he moved to an apartment in the Murray Hill neighborhood just to the south of Grand Central Terminal. Emilio also began to socialize with distinctly separate groups of gay and heterosexual friends and acquaintances in and around New York. Among the many Sanchez drawings of New York City from this early period that can be found at the Archives of American Art, several have been ripped out of his sketchbooks and many others are simply small graphite sketches on paper. Emilio also considered vistas of a few iconic buildings such as the New York Life Insurance Company Building and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company North Building, both overlooking Madison Square Park with their unmistakable pyramidal tops, and the Hoboken Ferry terminal tower, resembling the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
