…assembly-line training center during World War II, and from 1976 to 2005 as the studio where Frank Stella, one of the 20th century’s most important artists, created some of his…
Read More…landmark the building and save it from demolition.) Most recently, the building served as the studio of Frank Stella, one of the 20th century’s most notable and influential artists. Few…
Read More…African Queen” in the studio at #172. Sadly, #178 has since been demolished. First, for those who might not be familiar, artist’s studios are spaces generally inserted into the upper…
Read More…architectural features, the artist’s studio. So we thought we’d use the occasion of these warm August days to conduct a brief survey of some of our favorite artist’s studio windows…
Read More…by none other than Jimi Hendrix, Electric Lady Studios at 52 West 8th Street was built to provide Hendrix with affordable studio space that would also meet his personal technical…
Read More…Studios at 52 West 8th Street in Greenwich Village. On August 26th, 1970, the studio opened, the only recording artist-owned studio at the time. It provided Hendrix with affordable studio space that would…
Read More…barrier to entry for jewelry-making was lower than for other types of art. Between the 30s and the 60s, modernist jewelry studios sprang up all around Greenwich Village, with many…
Read More…as the Bryant Park Studios and the Central Park Studios. In the Village, however, artists’ studios tended to be carved out of the top floors of ‘tenementized’ row houses —…
Read More…West 14th Street as their studio address at various points throughout the 1930s. A sketchbook by Lena Gurr (who later kept a studio in the building) lists 240 West 14th…
Read More…and wares, by the 1960s it was producing an entirely different product. It became the home of the highly sought-after Apostolic Recording Studios, the first 12-track recording studio in the…
Read More…Historic District shaped 20th century American art. Jackson Pollock kept studios at 49 East 10th Street, 46 Carmine Street, and 47 Horatio Street; Willem de Kooning had studios at 827-831…
Read More…Museum of Natural History on Lobel’s silver sculptures of animals. Following these exhibitions, Lobel opened up a summer studio in Provincetown, which he ran until 1953. His studio in New…
Read More…30 East 14th Street Artist Studios via Apartments.com. Facade of 30 East 14th Street in 1959. May Janko and Agnes Hart kept studios there. One particularly notable collection of artist studios…
Read More…the 20th century. Façade of 30 East 14th Street Artist Studios via Apartments.com. Facade of 30 East 14th Street in 1959 30 East 14th Street, the middle building of the…
Read More…loft building Studio 35, the space remained an important locale for artists to gather and learn from each other. The Lively Friday evening gatherings at Studio 35 featured conversations and lectures from…
Read More…his studio, 1986. Image via LPC application “I love the idea,” said Dorothy in the NY Times, “that the studio which Roy loved so much will continue to have meaning.”…
Read More…an earlier wave of Village gentrification. And although it was referring to an artist’s studio and not a studio apartment, many similarities exist to today’s issues of displacement and gentrification….
Read More…North and West 8th Street. Varying in height, many of these buildings were converted to artist studios in the early 20th century as more and more creative talent called the…
Read More…Greenwich Village waterfront into subsidized housing and studios for artists, and space for arts, cultural, educational, and community institutions. The adaptive reuse process was undertaken from 1968-70 by a careful collection…
Read More…the property, the current owner says Levine lived here for decades. According to the homeowner, Levine used the top floor of the house as his studio. Although it’s now a…
Read More…the building, which her predecessors would not do. The building was landmarked on October 28, 2014. Click HERE for the designation report. Former Van Tassell & Kearney Auction Mart/Frank Stella…
Read More…from which its name is derived. The building was specifically intended to attract artists, with 10 one-room studios with casement windows, similar to the “artists’ studios” which had been popping…
Read More…one another and the world. Bernice Abbott’s 1938 photo of the Tenth Street Studio Building. MCNY The Tenth Street Studios building, located at 51 West 10th Street, was built in…
Read More…the time) artist-run recording studio at 52 West 8th Street after experiencing cost overruns and creative frustration at traditional commercial studios. While Electric Lady Studios would go on to become one of the…
Read More…lived here. 10th Street Studio Berenice Abbott photographed the building in 1938. Photograph from the collection of Museum of the City of New York The Tenth Street Studio Building 51…
Read More…recording studios. The renowned record-producer, civil rights activist, and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inductee John Hammond made his very first recordings at the Columbia Phonograph Recording Studios at 55…
Read More…of the first boutique studios in the city, RPM Studios was founded in 1976 by classically trained electronic composer turned studio owner Robert Mason. The studio was known for being…
Read More…the best gear available. Electric Lady Studios established the precedent of artists owning their own studio space rather than relying on studios owned by recording companies. The building at 52…
Read More…he added another room, Studio O, on the fifth floor. Howard Daum “Studio with Black Cat,” 1954 of the artist’s studio at 30 East 14th Street. Photo courtesy of the…
Read More…event recording now! Tour the South of Union Square 128 East 13th Street, Frank Stella’s Studio, as taken by Hew Evans of Village Preservation Virtual Plaque Unveiling: Frank Stella’s East…
Read More…universal language of music in his new studio.” Electric Lady Studios Entrance on West 8th Street. Photo Source: John Veltri The studio still flourishes today—over the past 50-plus years, Electric…
Read More…American assemblage art, hard-edge painting, and Pop Art — moved into his studio here in 1955. While living here, Indiana claimed, he could see into Willem de Kooning’s studio at…
Read More…member of the band worked for Rob in the studio at the desk, as an assistant, gopher, or even an intern. Rob intended to use the studio for his own…
Read More…be similarly converted and saved. Photo by Beyond My Ken / Wiki Commons 128 East 13th Street From 1975 to 2005, this former horse auction mart housed the studio of artist Frank Stella….
Read More…the purpose of the studio changed. In 1912, Shinn had a stage installed converting the cottage studio into a 55 seat theater for his newly founded theater group, the Waverly…
Read More…128 East 13th Street (left), which served as home and studio for influential abstract artist Frank Stella for 27 years The building went through another conversion in the decades to…
Read More…II, by Frank Stella Another trailblazer found his base of operations just down the street from the Martha Graham studio: Frank Stella. A painter, printmaker, and sculptor, Stella has shaken…
Read More…Graham dancers in the Westbeth studio In 2008, the Martha Graham dance company began using the Merce Cunningham studio at Westbeth, and has been based in the space ever since….
Read More…artist Isamu Noguchi’s first studio was located at the Clay Club. His studio and residence, listed as 33 MacDougal Alley, was located at the rear of 4 West 8th Street…
Read More…Whitney Studio Club at 10 West 8th Street, and – his first solo exhibition – at Gallery 144 in New York City. Also in 1932, Gross married Renee Nechin (1909-2005),…
Read More…York Studio School Located along MacDougal Alley, the former studio of heiress and artist Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney served as our ticket pick-up location in 2018. The studio’s most arresting feature…
Read More…once ubiquitous in this area and now rare. The infamous “flame” fireplace in Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s studio. The tour began at the original Whitney, now the New York Studio School,…
Read More…influential art studio to make a home in the environs around South of Union Square was Atelier 17, a printmaking studio founded in Paris circa 1927 by Stanley William Hayter….
Read More…Sessions at Studio 35 (Biala background left). From The Artists’ Sessions at Studio 35 (1950), edited by Robert Goodnough. One memorable passage in the conference transcripts concerns the question: “How…
Read More…Keith Haring’s studio. 1. Pfaff’s, 647 Broadway Pfaff’s beer cellar in 1857 with Walt Whitman seated, via Wiki Commons This beer and wine cellar in the lower level of what…
Read More…North, the long time home and studio of painter Edward Hopper. 8 West 8th Street has served as home to the New York Studio School since 1964. The buildings were…
Read MoreThe ground floor studio of sculptor Chaim Gross. Image courtesy of the Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation Off the Grid is highlighting the winners of GVSHP’s 2015 Village Awards, in…
Read More…studios and workshops in the area South of Union Square. Siqueiros (center) and members of the Experimental Workshop in front of portraits of American Communist Party Candidates for president and…
Read More…and its acoustics, said he recalled Hendrix living in a cottage at 50 West 8th Street one wall away from Electric Lady Studios. Jimi and producers at Electric Lady Studios….
Read More…to confirm that at least eight important artists kept their studios at 8 West 13th Street mid-century. Vaclav Vytlacil in his studio, 1979. Photograph by Art Sarno. In 1938, Vaclav…
Read More…Artist Studios Artist’s studios on Bleecker Street, via Village Preservation Greenwich Village may not be the only place in New York with artist studio windowsinserted into old buildings. But no place…
Read More…The book is one of the best-selling books of all time, earning Gibran an international literary reputation. An interior photo of Kahlil Gibran’s Studio on West 10th Street Gibran’s Studio…
Read More…East 13th Street, a remarkable building originally a horse auction mart for the likes of the Vanderbilts and the Belmonts, which served as the studio of artist Frank Stella from…
Read More…central to the Abstract Expressionist school of the 1940’s and 1950’s. He had previously had a studio on Fourth Avenue but the space at 88 East 10th Street served as…
Read More…striving to make sense out of the constrained circumstances we find ourselves in, and still are finding and creating new ways to keep us thinking and engaged. HB Studios on…
Read More…way for St. Vincent’s Memorial Park and the New York City AIDS Memorial, which now stand in their place. New York Studio School; photo via Wikimedia Hopper’s big break came in…
Read More…connection to the culturally rich but endangered area of Greenwich Village and the East Village South of Union Square, home of (among other great sites) the legendary RPM Recording Studios…
Read More…– 14th Street” New York Public Library Digital Collections. 74-76 5th Avenue circa 2019 via Google Maps. Isabel Bishop’s 9 West 14th Street Studio (no longer extant) highlighted in red,…
Read More…at her studio in Greenwich Village, even trusting him to run the shop for months when she was away. At Mason’s studio, Smith cultivated his personal style. Alexander Calder was…
Read More…October of 1936 Hofmann moved the school to 52 West 9th Street in Greenwich Village (and the GVHD), a still-extant rowhouse with a dramatic two-story studio window within a setback…
Read More…Village-based HB Studio, founded by her husband Herbert Berghof. Hagen was also a an uncompromising human rights advocate. Though she was placed on the Hollywood blacklist for a number of…
Read MoreFrederic Church was a central figure of the Hudson River School, and kept a studio at the 10th Street Studio Building. (This post is part of a series called Village…
Read MoreOn March 23, 1962, Village Voice photographer Fred McDarrah took a group of photos of Abstract Expressionist artist Willem de Kooning in his studio and home at 831 Broadway. De…
Read More…studio on Washington Square. That studio remains preserved at 3 Washington Square North, where Edward Hopper lived and worked for 53 years. This is but one of many sites in…
Read More…August 26th, 1970, Hendrix opened his Electric Lady Studios at 52 West 8th Street. It was the only recording artist-owned studio at the time, and it provided Hendrix with affordable studio space that…
Read More…as to whether or not it’s a worthy addition to the neighborhood. Finally, Village Preservation reported that the former Frank Stella Studio and early 20th century stable/horse auction mart (and…
Read More…the former Frank Stella studios at 128 East 13th Street, the Anthology Film Archives, and the Pyramid Club at 101 Avenue A in the proposed East Village/Lower East Side Historic…
Read More…studio for Frank Stella, one of the most influential artists of his time, a groundbreaking explorer of abstract expressionism. The campaign paid off with landmark designation in 2016. In 2021,…
Read More…the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture since 1964. Courtesy the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Interior of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s Greenwich Village studio featuring a custom…
Read More…Village. Physical Graffiti was mixed at Electric Lady Studios at 52 West 8th Street, one of the most storied recording studios around. And of course this was not the only…
Read More…maintained a studio at 8 East 12th Street, made his name with the image of Bob Dylan called “Dylan With Sunglasses and Cigarette,” while working for a Swedish news agency…
Read More…the 20th century. Chaim Gross in his 63 East 9th Street studio Photo credit- © Alfredo Valente, c. 1938. Throughout the 20th century, the area south of Union Square attracted…
Read More…studio at this address. Not only was Macnabb highly sought after for his technical skill, the studio’s “central location” was a draw for sitters. By the mid-20th century, 813 Broadway…
Read More…Hendrix opened Electric Lady Studios at 52 West 8th Street. A recording studio that continues to draw in some of the biggest rockstars of the past almost 50 years, the…
Read More…which its name is derived. The building was specifically intended to attract artists, with 10 one-room studios with casement windows, similar to the “artists’ studios” which had been popping up…
Read More…constructed in 1891 as a sculptor’s studio at a time when rear stables were frequently converted to artist’s studios. As a result, the building was designed to look like it…
Read More…by Beyond My Ken on Wikimedia 2. Moretti Sculpture Studio 249 ½ East 13th Street Next stop is this incredibly charming little building located just west of 2nd Avenue. Located in the…
Read More…sole owner in 1930. During this time, she opened the Whitney Studio galleries and Whitney Studio Club in 1918. As her name suggests, she was born into one of New…
Read More…he secured a deal with Motown to have complete artistic and creative control over his records. Wonder returned to the studio, including Electric Lady Studios, to work on Fulfillingness shortly…
Read More…Hendrix, Electric Lady Studios at 52 West 8th Street was built to provide Hendrix with an affordable studio space that would also meet his specific technical and aesthetic needs. Kicked…
Read More…Street? 12 East 12th Street Designed, built and operated by classically trained electronic composer turned studio owner Robert Mason, RPM was one of the first boutique studios in the city,…
Read More…at Electric Lady Studios. So impressed were The Clash with Blaney’s work at Electric Lady Studios that they hired him and the studio to record and produce their next and…
Read More…historian Andrew S. Dolkart can be found here. (left) GVSHP 128 East 13th Street Campaign Logo; (right) Artist Frank Stella in 1964, photo by Ugo Mulas (click photo for source)…
Read More…Villager who made a home at 107 Bank Street with his partner John Cage, and whose studio was for many years located at Westbeth Artists Housing. Cunningham’s life and work is celebrated…
Read More…and the Village. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in her studio 1920 Married in 1896 at the age of 21 to Harry Payne Whitney, who hailed from a family of similar wealth…
Read More…that school was located in his atelier in the Tenth Street Studio Building he designed at 51 West 10th Street in Greenwich Village. Here he trained and shaped the thinking…
Read More…long after the OKeh Phonograph recording studios occupied the building as well. Some of the most consequential recordings of twentieth century American music were made in these studios, which remained…
Read MoreOn April 5, 1959, Village Voice photographer Fred McDarrah snapped this iconic photo of Willem de Kooning on the stoop of 88 East 10th Street, his home and studio from…
Read More…spent considerable time in the Village, recording their album Combat Rock and the single “This is Radio Clash” at the Village’s iconic Electric Lady Studios, for London Calling it’s the…
Read More…[his] going in and out of the studio with snakes and spiders.” Portrait of Ellen Emmet Rand by Mary Foote She started her career in New York City in a…
Read More…fascinating pasts. Last year’s tour even included a delightful arc linking two of the locations. The tour began at the New York Studio School, originally Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s studio and…
Read More…East 14th Street Artist Studios via Apartments.com. One particularly notable collection of artist studios was located at 30 East 14th Street, a five-story structure built in 1880 as a retail store…
Read MoreTaylor Swift during a recording session at Electric Lady Studios in 2019, photo courtesy Electric Lady Studios At the age of 24, after spending a decade building her music career…
Read More…1970, when Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Lady Studios began its life. Jimi Hendrix (seated), South African-born American music producer and engineer Eddie Kramer (standing left) and studio manager Jim Marron as…
Read More…Rhymes, with the number 50 coming from the number of their studio in Westbeth. Geeby Dajani at Studio 50 in Westbeth. Source: Dante Ross. Throughout much of the early 1990s,…
Read More…C. Westervelt. Within this tiny building was located one of the city’s most prominent photographic studios (at a time when photography was still a relatively new and novel invention) and…
Read More…the 20th century. Sonia Gechtoff at Canal Street Studio, New York (1960s). The area south of Union Square, which Village Preservation has proposed be designated an historic district, has attracted…
Read More…Studio, 1928 (left). Smithsonian Archives of American Art. Whitney Studio, 2010 (right). Courtesy of the University of Pennsylvania Architectural Conservation Laboratory. Additionally, the New York Studio School, which will serve…
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