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Towering Obsession: Cooper’s Water Tank Wonders Back on Tour
By Steven Libowitz   |   September 3, 2024

You won’t see any water towers rising above buildings in painter Sophie Cooper’s Montecito neighborhood on East Mountain Drive near Westmont College, nor anywhere in Montecito for that matter. But you will find paintings of scores of antiquated wooden tanks – which New York City required of all buildings higher than six stories starting in […]