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Remembering Willem de Kooning
…Kooning was considered the master of that world. According to Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan in De Kooning An American Master, “The New York scene jelled on de Kooning’s doorstep.”…
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Willem de Kooning Standing on his East 10th Street Stoop, and at the Center of the Art World
…Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan in De Kooning: An American Master, “The New York scene jelled on de Kooning’s doorstep.” It was during the 1950s that the then-novel concept of…
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Happy Birthday, Willem de Kooning!
Willem De Kooning. Photo courtesy of biography.com. On April 24, 1904 artist Willem de Kooning was born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. de Kooning was one of the major figures of…
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Willem de Kooning at Home
…and designed by Griffith Thomas De Kooning was born in 1904 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. De Kooning came to America as a stowaway on a British freighter in 1926, and…
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de Kooning’s Greenwich Village
…827-831 Broadway, two critically important buildings in the life and work of artists Willem de Kooning and Elaine de Kooning, we thought it would be interesting to explore other spots in…
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From Willem de Kooning’s loft to the threat of the wrecking ball: The history of 827-831 Broadway
…noted portraitist Dan Budnik. That image, “Willem de Kooning, 831 Broadway, New York,” is now in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Willem de Kooning at 831 Broadway ©…
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Elaine de Kooning: Quintessential New Yorker & Art World Catalyst
Elaine de Kooning: Quintessential New Yorker & Art World Catalyst Cathy Curtis, author of A Generous Vision: The Creative Life of Elaine de Kooning, will share her expertise in this…
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Fred W. McDarrah: Willem de Kooning at 831 Broadway
Portraits of Dutch-born American artist Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) in his loft studio at 831 Broadway, New York, by Fred W. McDarrah. In support of Village Preservation’s successful effort to save 827-831 Broadway, the…
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Willem de Kooning at 831 Broadway Image #1
…artist Willem de Kooning in his studio at 831 Broadway taken in 1962, at the height of his career. Read more about de Kooning’s links to in the Village here….
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Willem de Kooning at 831 Broadway Image #2
…artist Willem de Kooning in his studio at 831 Broadway taken in 1962, at the height of his career. Read more about de Kooning’s links to in the Village here….
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Willem de Kooning at 831 Broadway Image #3
…artist Willem de Kooning in his studio at 831 Broadway taken in 1962, at the height of his career. Read more about de Kooning’s links to in the Village here….
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Willem de Kooning at 831 Broadway Image #4
…artist Willem de Kooning in his studio at 831 Broadway taken in 1962, at the height of his career. Read more about de Kooning’s links to in the Village here….
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Willem de Kooning at 831 Broadway Image #5
…artist Willem de Kooning in his studio at 831 Broadway taken in 1962, at the height of his career. Read more about de Kooning’s links to in the Village here….
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Willem de Kooning at 831 Broadway Image #6
…artist Willem de Kooning in his studio at 831 Broadway taken in 1962, at the height of his career. Read more about de Kooning’s links to in the Village here….
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Willem de Kooning at 831 Broadway Image #7
…artist Willem de Kooning in his studio at 831 Broadway taken in 1962, at the height of his career. Read more about de Kooning’s links to in the Village here….
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Willem de Kooning at 831 Broadway Image #8
…artist Willem de Kooning in his studio at 831 Broadway taken in 1962, at the height of his career. Read more about de Kooning’s links to in the Village here….
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Willem de Kooning at 831 Broadway Image #9
…artist Willem de Kooning in his studio at 831 Broadway taken in 1962, at the height of his career. Read more about de Kooning’s links to in the Village here….
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Willem de Kooning at 831 Broadway Image #10
…artist Willem de Kooning in his studio at 831 Broadway taken in 1962, at the height of his career. Read more about de Kooning’s links to in the Village here….
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Willem de Kooning at 831 Broadway Image #11
Portraits of Dutch-born American artist Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) in his loft studio at 831 Broadway, New York, by Fred W. McDarrah. In support of GVSHP’s effort to save 827-831…
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FIGHT TO SAVE 1866 CAST-IRON BUILDINGS HEATS UP, WITH NY TIMES OP-ED and POSITIVE SIGNS ON POTENTIAL LANDMARKING FOR FORMER DE KOONING HOME
…Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Paul Jenkins, and Larry Poons, among many others, lived and painted here; that the construction and early occupancy of the building was connected to some…
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827-831 Broadway, Threatened 1866 Lofts Once Home to de Kooning, Landmarked! Year and a Half Campaign Saves Historic Structures from Wrecking Ball and Planned Replacement with 300 ft. Tall Tower Owner Opposed Designation, Threatened Lawsuit
…ft. tall office tower. Landmark designation takes immediate effect! These 1866 lofts were once home to Willem de Kooning and a vast array of influential art world figures, and were connected to…
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: 88 East 10th Street
…Kooning, and the center of the 10th Street Galleries. Willem de Kooning in the doorway of 88 East 10th Street. April 5, 1959. Photo © Estate of Fred W. McDarrah…
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The Ninth Street Five
…of their time. Those women, Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, and Joan Mitchell, were at the very core of the intellectual, artistic, and social advancement of…
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked: 95 East 10th Street/48 Third Avenue
…next door to Willem de Kooning’s building, at No. 90 East 10th Street. Not long after opening, it counted among its membership Willem de Kooning, Rudy Burkhardt, Al Held and…
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South of Union Square: Home of the Abstract Expressionists
…Kline, Jackson Pollock, and Willem and Elaine de Kooning along East 10th Street. Willem de Kooning on 88 East 10th Street Stoop with Novelist Noel Clad, April 5, 1959. Photo…
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When “the Club” Ruled the Art World from East 8th Street
…among the Club’s founding members were Conrad Marca-Relli, Franz Kline, Joop Sanders, Milton Resnick, Giorgio Cavallon, Ibram Lassaw, Lutz Sanders, James Brooks, Willem de Kooning, Lewin Alcopley, Philip Pavia, Frederick…
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Fred W. McDarrah’s Greenwich Village and the East Village of the 1950s and 60s
…used on the cover of “The Beat Scene” by Elias Wilentz, a compilation of short works to which nearly every prominent Beat writer contributed in 1960. Dutch American artist Willem de Kooning…
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BREAKING: CITY MOVES TO LANDMARK ENDANGERED 1866 CAST-IRON BUILDINGS AT 827-831 BROADWAY WHICH GVSHP FOUGHT TO SAVE!
…by some of the great innovators in American commerce and industry. In the mid-20th century, they were home to world-renowned artists like Willem de Kooning, Elaine de Kooning, and Paul…
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City Releases “Special Permit” Requirement Proposal For Hotels South of Union Square; Plan Would Promote Office Tower Development and Destruction of Historic Buildings, Expands “Midtown South” to Greenwich Village and East Village, Rewards Mayor’s Campaign Donors and Fails to Deliver on Rivera’s Neighborhood Protection Campaign Pledge
…for new office tower development resulting from this plan that would entail the destruction of multiple historic 19th-century buildings that housed artists including Willem de Kooning and Reginald Marsh —…
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GVSHP Oral History: Paula DeLuccia Poons
…from females, like Grace Hartigan and Lee Krasner, and Elaine de Kooning, and they had a big Jules Olitski painting that I remember that I really liked. Big yellow painting.”…
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Historic Broadway Gems Saved from Demolition
On October 17, 2017 the Landmarks Preservation Commissions (LPC) held a hearing to consider landmarking 827-831 Broadway, the threatened 1866 lofts once home to Willem de Kooning. Just two weeks…
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Buy a Book Locally on Small Business Saturday
…book, New York Nights. A Generous Vision: The Creative Life of Elaine de Kooning The first biography of Elaine de Kooning, A Generous Vision portrays a woman whose intelligence, droll sense of…
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked: 49 East 10th, Home of Jackson Pollock
…to set up his art for sale on a sidewalk near Washington Square Park. Soon, his friend (and fellow starving artist) Willem de Kooning joined him, as well as other…
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From Mark Twain and the Lovin’ Spoonful to Tech Hub: The overlooked history of Union Square South
…today, photo by Beyond My Ken via Wiki Commons 827-831 Broadway Willem de Kooning had his last New York home here during one of his most productive periods, in one of the first…
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#SouthofUnionSquare: Home to (even more) Trailblazing Artists, Dancers, Labor Leaders, and Birth Control Advocates
…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…
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The Genius of Joan Mitchell
…Mark’s Place from 1951-1957). There she met and became friends with, among others, painters Willem de Kooning, Elaine de Kooning, Franz Kline, Grace Hartigan, and Jackson Pollock and poets Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery. Mitchell was invited to…
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Joan Mitchell’s Village
…York’s cutting edge art and literary movements. Upon arrival, Mitchell enmeshed herself with painters Willem de Kooning, Elaine de Kooning, Franz Kline, Grace Hartigan, and Jackson Pollock and poets Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery. 267 West 11th Street today….
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Dorothy Canning Miller: Champion of Abstract Expressionism
…to recommend that MoMA acquire a black-and-white painting from Willem de Kooning’s first solo exhibition at the Charles Egan Gallery. This move proved pivotal, as de Kooning later became a…
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Art and Suffrage on 14th Street
…Cornell, David Hare, Hans Hofmann, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Richard Pousette-Dart, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still and Robert De Niro, Sr.. They similarly look to exhibit…
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Finding George Spaventa #SouthOfUnionSquare
…84 East 10th Street, just two doors down from Willem de Kooning’s famous 88 East 10th Street studio, there once was a Villager whom Elaine de Kooning called “a master…
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Jackson Pollock’s Old Stomping Grounds
…and rent, decided to set up his artwork on the sidewalk near Washington Square Park (this would become known as the Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit). Willem de Kooning soon…
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Sunday, May 3rd – Our Village House Tour!
…Not many people can say they have a Willem de Kooning painting that was given to them by de Kooning himself. On the tour, there will also be a chance…
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Art in the Village: East 10th Street Galleries
…Dali’s dreamlike paintings) and/or European Modernism (think Picasso). Famous Abstract Expressionists include Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning. The noteworthy pioneers of Abstract Expressionism paved the way for…
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Spring House Tour Benefit Surprises and Delights
…now adorns the home’s ceilings throughout. Rounding out the tour were two artists’ lofts in the buildings at 827-831 Broadway, the buildings where, among others, Willem and Elaine de Kooning…
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Fight to Save Our Neighborhood South of Union Square: From Bowlmor Demolition to the ‘Zero-Help’ Hotel Special Permit
…to Union Square. While the first project was thankfully thwarted when Village Preservation got the site landmarked due to its connection to Willem de Kooning and a vast array of…
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Groundbreaking Artist and Educator Selma Hortense Burke’s Home at 88 East 10th Street
…Willem de Kooning. At that time, it was both the center of the Tenth Street artist enclave that defined mid-twentieth century American art, and the place where de Kooning would…
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The April 1950 Artists’ Sessions at Studio 35
…artists and critics galore, including Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, and William de Kooning. But others from the larger community were invited as well, not just painters: according to the transcript…
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Franz Kline’s Last Studio at 242 West 14th Street
…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…
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Finding the Most Impactful Women of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo
…century by the New York Public Library. (l. to r., top to bottom) Bryant, Burke, Cather, Davis, Day, de Kooning, Earhart. To vote for your top ten picks, click here….
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Who Were the Most Impactful Women of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo?
…New York Public Library. (l. to r., top to bottom) Bryant, Burke, Cather, Davis, Day, de Kooning, Earhart. To vote for your top ten picks, click here. Louise Bryant —Noted…
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Who Were the Most Impactful Women of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo?
…New York Public Library. (l. to r., top to bottom) Bryant, Burke, Cather, Davis, Day, de Kooning, Earhart. To vote for your top 10 picks, click here. Louise Bryant —Noted…
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How Harlem Renaissance Artists Made Their Mark in the Village
…the Great Migration, in the early and mid-20th century, Greenwich Village and the East Village were also known for artistic innovation. Household names like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning…
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Where Art History Was Made on West 13th Street
…shifting the center of the art world from Paris to New York City. Dutch American artist Willem de Kooning on his stoop on East 10th Street, April 5, 1959. Photo…
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Arshile Gorky: A Bridge to Abstract Expressionism
…be known as the Abstract Expressionists. One of his closest friends was Willem de Kooning, a fellow artist whose work formed the cornerstone of the New York School. The two…
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Victory! After Four-Year Campaign, 50 West 13th Street Wins Landmark Designation!
…(top l. to bottom r.): 827-31 Broadway (home of Willem de Kooning); Stonewall Inn; 70 Fifth Avenue, former NAACP Headquarters; 128 East 13th Street (Frank Stella Studio); Julius’ Bar; and…
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Preserving and Honoring Women’s History
…Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Jules Olitsky, Paul Jenkins, Larry Poons, Herbert Ferber, and William S. Rubin. The Stonewall Inn, the first NYC individual landmark to be designated for its…
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Accomplishments
…Village Preservation saves 827-831 Broadway from the wrecking ball, two 1866 cast-iron loft buildings which once housed Willem de Kooning and a raft of important artists and art world figures. The Trump…
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827-831 Broadway
…became home of some of the most significant figures of the art world of the time, including Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Jules Olitsky, Paul Jenkins, and Larry Poons. After…
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The WPA Today
…Jackson Pollack and Willem de Kooning, were also launched thanks to WPA endowments.” For preservationists, however, there is one project of the WPA that still proves particularly useful today. posters…
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Fashion in the Park
…Greenwich Village connection — The Irascibles — a portrait of fourteen now-renowned artists, including de Kooning, Pollock, Rothko and others, who as noted in Life, “protested the Metropolitan Museum of…
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2014 Village Award Winner: New York Central Art Supply
…long been home to artists. Steven even remembers making bicycle deliveries to Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning as a child. More recent customers include Frank Stella, Kiki Smith and…
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2015 Benefit House Tour A Smashing Success!
…1, 2016 on your calendar now! In addition to Mr. Gross’ work, the foundation has an astonishing array of works by other noted 20th century artists, including Willem de Kooning…
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2015 Village Award Winner The Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation
…art, featuring paintings by artists such as de Kooning, Chagall, Gorky, Avery, Raphael and Moses Soyer, and others, many of which had been received as gifts. The Foundation has holdings…
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Welcome to the New Whitney
…people, brought together and focused by this new building and the experience of art.” Edward Hopper’s Early Sunday Morning (1930) Willem de Kooning, “Woman and Bicycle” (1952-53) (Courtesy: The Whitney)…
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A New Oral History with Acclaimed Painter Wolf Kahn
…Kahn relates his journey as an artist, a family man, and a housing activist, who went to the Cedar Tavern and knew painter Willem de Kooning and poet Frank O’Hara….
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Happy Birthday to Wolf Kahn, who Draws the City like a Landscape
…the Village and the role he played in the art scene there, attending salons, renting half his apartment to Robert De Niro Sr., and spending time with Willem de Kooning…
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Touring Bleecker Street’s Diverse History
…Kooning, Franz Kline and Dylan Thomas. Other clubs included Cafe Au Go Go at 152 Bleecker Street (at Thompson St), The Bitter End at 147 Bleecker Street (between Thompson St…
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Our 2018 Resolutions
…(12th/13th Streets) — in 2017 GVSHP saved these 1866 lofts that were once home to Willem de Kooning from the wrecking ball. But now a developer wants permission to build…
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The Village is our Valentine!
…status. However, the building’s owners want to put an out-of-scale addition on top of this beautiful cast-iron building that once held the studio of artist Willem de Kooning. GVSHP is…
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Only Seven Landmarks in One of New York’s Most Historically Rich Areas?
…a number of mid-century artists including Willem de Kooning), which thanks to the efforts of GVSHP was landmarked in 2017. Just to the south of that is the striking no….
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Nico Captured by Fred McDarrah
…Jimi Hendrix, Willem de Kooning, and many others to be included within the GVSHP Historic Image Archive. Nico performing with the Velvet Underground at Steve Paul’s nightclub, the Scene, New…
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Exploring East Village Music Meccas with Building Blocks
…living nearby – Franz Kline, Grace Hartigan, Allen Ginsberg, and Willem de Kooning, to name a few – and became one of the world’s premier jazz clubs in the 1950s….
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A Truly Historic House Tour! Village Preservation’s 21st Spring House Tour in the Greenwich Village Historic District
…artist’s studios, both those of the past (like the now-landmarked home of Willem de Kooning’s studio) and those being used by working creatives today. The breathtaking fireplace at the New…
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M1-5 What? A Lofty History of Zoning in SoHo and NoHo
…and abstract expressionist painter Willem de Kooning. While organizing an artists’ strike that would have far-reaching consequences for the city, ATA representatives met with city officials to come up with a…
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New Historic McDarrah Photos Added to Historic Image Archive
…for Fred McDarrah: Willem de Kooning at 831 Broadway, and here Fred W. McDarrah: Bob Dylan’s Greenwich Village. Click here to access the entire image archive, and here to search…
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: 32 East 10th Street, Home of artist Franz Kline
…New York City in 1938. He started his artistic career as a realist painter, but after meeting Willem de Kooning his style evolved to what would be his signature abstract…
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Native American Contemporary Art Sites in our Area
…a scholarship to the Art Students League. Around 1954 he met Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, and Willem de Kooning. Influenced by surrealism and Abstract Expressionism, he began showing in New…
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Twelve Essential Reads About Greenwich Village and the East Village
…steps away from here, on Washington Place. NINTH STREET WOMEN by Mary Gabriel. The sub-title says it all – Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen…
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Paula DeLuccia Poons
…in the buildings over the last half century. In this recording, Paula talks about other occupants of the buildings including Willem de Kooning, MoMa Director William Rubin, and Cyndi Lauper….
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Fred W. McDarrah: Bob Dylan’s Greenwich Village
…& East Village, Part 2 See images from: Fred W. McDarrah: Rock Icons See images from: Fred W. McDarrah: Willem de Kooning at 831 Broadway Fred W. McDarrah (1926-2007) was…
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Fred W. McDarrah: Rock Icons
…images from: Fred W. McDarrah: Iconic Images of the Village & East Village, Part 2 See images from: Fred W. McDarrah: Willem de Kooning at 831 Broadway Fred W. McDarrah…
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Fred W. McDarrah: Iconic Images of the Village & East Village from the 1950s and 60s
…W. McDarrah: Rock Icons See images from: Fred W. McDarrah: Willem de Kooning at 831 Broadway Fred W. McDarrah (1926-2007) was an American photojournalist renowned for documenting the social, cultural,…
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Fred W. McDarrah: Iconic Images of the Village & East Village, Part 2
…from: Fred W. McDarrah: Rock Icons See images from: Fred W. McDarrah: Willem de Kooning at 831 Broadway Fred W. McDarrah (1926-2007) was an American photojournalist renowned for documenting the social, cultural,…
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LPC Says No to Crinkled Glass Topper for 827-831 Broadway
We are pleased to report that on Tuesday the Landmarks Preservation Commission did not approve a proposal for a 4-story crinkled glass addition atop 827-831 Broadway (12th/13th Streets), the 1866 lofts which once housed Willem de Kooning…
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827-831 Broadway Oversized Addition Hearing Next Tuesday 1/9
…Preservation Commission next Tuesday, January 9, starting at approximately 2pm.The developer claims that the proposed addition would be a tribute to Willem de Kooning and the many other artists who lived and worked (and in…
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Overwhelming Support at 827-831 Broadway Landmarking Hearing; Decision Oct. 31
…formerly home to Willem de Kooning and other art world luminaries, had faced the wrecking ball. Read GVSHP’s testimony here; watch video of the hearing here (this item begins at…
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827-831 Broadway Landmarks Hearing Tues., 10/17 at 9:45 am
…of influential artists and art world figures, including Willem de Kooning and Jules Olitski, this Tuesday, October 17th at 9:45 am. We strongly urge you to attend to testify in support,…
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Launching “Virtual Village” — Explore and Save #SouthOfUnionSquare
…Smith, among others. Where Willem de Kooning and the other “New York School” painters moved the center of the art world from Paris to New York. Where some of the greatest battles against censorship…
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