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John Sloan’s Village

John Sloan’s ‘Sixth Avenue Elevated at Third Street,’ 1928. Today marks the birthday of great Greenwich Village artist and chronicler of everyday life in Lower Manhattan John Sloan, born August 2,…

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John Sloan: Village Visionary

…life to popular culture to the relations between men and women. John Sloan at work And no artist painted Greenwich Village with as much affection and authenticity as John Sloan….

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VILLAGE VOICES: John Sloan

John Sloan August 2, 1871- September 7, 1951 Ashcan School Painter and Illustrator Depicting life with unflinching realism and immediacy, Sloan spent years capturing the working-class spirit in Greenwich Village….

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John’s of The Village

John’s of Bleecker Street and John’s of 12th Street. They are not related. At one time, there were actually four different establishments that went by “John’s of…” John’s of 64th street,…

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2014 Year In Review: GVSHP Programs

…to all awardees! OMG!: Churches and Synagogues of Greenwich Village St. John’s Lutheran Church Thursday, June 12 6:30 – 8:00 P.M. Free; reservations required St. John’s Lutheran Church 81 Christopher…

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Howard Johnson’s in Greenwich Village

…Men episode that featured a trip to Howard Johnson’s; R: an historic advertisement for the hotel/restaurant chain The first Howard Johnson’s restaurant we found was located at 415 6th Avenue,…

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VILLAGE VOICES

…Jackson Pollock Leontyne Price Robert Rauschenberg Oliver Sacks Maurice Sendak John Sloan Patti Smith Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney The Northern Dispensary 70 Fifth Avenue Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire A Monument to…

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Hats Off to John Guare

I’ll take Manhattan! If you had to draw a picture of a New York playwright, you would probably draw someone like John Guare.  Guare was born on February 5, 1938….

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Happy Birthday, John Lennon!

You don’t have to live in the Village to celebrate the birthday of John Lennon, who was born on October 9th, 1940. John Lennon — born October 9th, 1940. But…

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VILLAGE VOICES: John W. Draper

John W. Draper May 5, 1811 – January 4, 1882 Pioneering Photographer and Scientist On March 16, 1840, Draper took the first clear Daguerreotype photograph of the Moon from the…

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425 East 13th Streetwith John Cetra

425 East 13th Street with John Cetra CetraRuddy’s new design combines warm, earth-toned terra cotta with large expanses of glass and metal. Surrounded by the East Village’s traditional tenements, how…

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John Guare

John Guare (b. February 5, 1938) is a playwright and screenwriter known for Six Degrees of Separation and The House of Blue Leaves, among many other works. Born in Manhattan…

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Art in the Village: The Ashcan School

…have been preserved through landmarking. John Sloan, “Sunday, Women Drying Their Hair” (1912) Watching the three [women] from his studio at Sixth Avenue and West Fourth Street, Sloan called them…

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Remembering the Arch (and other) Conspirators

Washington Square Arch at night. Image via archive.gvshp.org On January 23, 1917, poet Gertrude Drick, painters John Sloan and Marcel Duchamp, and actors Russell Mann, Betty Turner, and Charles Ellis climbed…

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Dorothy Day

…The Masses illustration by John Sloan Her early years here as a young adult were marked by a bohemian and radical lifestyle. She was a central figure in the literary…

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Golden Swan Garden

…playwright Eugene O’Neill, a member of the nearby Provincetown Playhouse, and painter John Sloan. O’Neill based characters in his play, The Iceman Cometh, on the people he encountered at the…

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WWI and the Village

…by John Sloan. On January 23, 1917, poet Gertrude Drick, painters John Sloan and Marcel Duchamp, and actors Russell Mann, Betty Turner, and Charles Ellis climbed to the top of Washington…

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Our Irish Heritage

…Old Ale House, in the East Village. Village resident and artist John Sloan spent some time there. Just be prepared for crowds. source: Wikipedia John Sloan “McSorley’s Bar” 1912source: Wikipedia…

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Prohibition Revisits the East Village

Get out your trilby hats and flapper dresses- Boardwalk Empire, the HBO Prohibition-era mob drama, is filming right here on East 12th Street and 2nd Avenue at John’s Italian Restaurant….

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100 years ago…

…Place in 1914, photograph by Arthur D. Chapman. Photo source: www.mcny.org Speaking of laundry on the clothesline, painter John Sloan, a resident of Greenwich Village, created this winter image of…

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The Flatirons of the Village and the East Village

…housed printers, publishers, and other manufacturers. John Sloan’s ‘City from Greenwich Village’ One notable exception, however, was the “aschcan” school artist John Sloan, who maintained a studio in the building…

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MacDougal, Sullivan, & Thompson

…this John Sloan painting, near the top center. And at 92 MacDougal, near Bleecker Street, you’ll find a bronze plaque commemorating the location of the legendary San Remo Café, which…

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Summer in the City

…soon became a sought-after accompanist on the Village folk scene, working with Fred Neil, Tim Hardin, Mississippi John Hurt, Judy Collins, Bob Dylan and many others. Soon after John joined…

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