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Remembering Jackson Pollock
…became like the family Pollock felt he never had. 47 Horatio Street, one of several of Pollock’s residences in Greenwich Village. In 1935 Pollock and his brother Charles moved in…
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Jackson Pollock’s Greenwich Village
Influential Abstract Expressionist painter Paul Jackson Pollock was born on January 28, 1912 in Cody, Wyoming. With his father, a farmer and government surveyor, mother and four brothers, Pollock grew up in…
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked: 49 East 10th, Home of Jackson Pollock
…Elaine de Kooning, and Pollock’s wife, Lee Krasner. Krasner & Pollock in Springs The area south of Union Square was a center of much of this activity. 49 East 10th…
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Jackson Pollock’s Old Stomping Grounds
…as past haunts of Mr. Pollock. Pollock’s 1943 painting, She Wolf, his first work purchased by MoMa Shortly after relocating to New York City, in 1935 Pollock settled into a…
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An American Saga: Celebrating Jackson Pollock’s 110th Birthday
…of “art.” To discuss Pollock’s life and legacy, we’ll be sitting down for a conversion with Steven Naifeh, author of Jackson Pollock: An American Saga (1998). Naifeh’s eight years of research…
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The Village on Film A Village Preservation Film Series Presents: Pollock
…“Pollock,” directed by and starring Ed Harris, tells the story of the life and career of painter Jackon Pollock (played by Harris). The film focuses on Pollock’s early days as…
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Exploring Virtual Village Voices, Part 8: Jackson Pollock, Leontyne Price, and Robert Rauschenberg
…online. Today we explore three more of our 31 installations from the event: Jackson Pollock, Leontyne Price, and Robert Rauschenberg. Jackson Pollock Pollock was a founder of Abstract Expressionism and…
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VILLAGE VOICES: Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956 Abstract Expressionist and Action Painter Pollock was a founder of Abstract Expressionism and developer of the unusual “drip painting” technique. Pollock…
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#SouthOfUnionSquare, Mexican Muralists Remake American Art: David Alfaro Siqueiros and the Experimental Workshop
…collectively in an environment without hierarchy The first cohort of Experimental Workshop members were twenty-four-year-old Jackson Pollock, Pollock’s older brother Sande McCoy, George Cox, Louis Ferstadt, Axel Horn (previously Horr),…
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Alfonso Ossorio: Artist, Collector, Congregator
…Ossorio’s watercolors. Ossorio and Pollock became quite close friends as they worked alongside each other and influenced one another. Ossorio absorbed Pollock’s signature drip painting method while Pollock’s “Black Pourings”…
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The Social Realist Artist Studios of 240 West 14th Street
…(top) with Jackson Pollock’s first Abstract Expressionist works (bottom) Jackson Pollock, 1930: Jackson Pollock listed 240 West 14th Street as his address when registering for classes at the Art Students…
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Village Preservation & The New School Present: Greenwich Village Artists Series “I and the Village”
Village Preservation & The New School Present: Greenwich Village Artists Series “I and the Village:” Jackson Pollock’s Downtown Years, A Lecture by Larissa Bailiff Jackson Pollock moved to New York by…
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Hans Hofmann and the Village
…when they first met in Pollock’s studio, Hofmann looked around and noted that there are no still-lifes or models. Apparently he then asked, “Do you work from nature?” Pollock responded,…
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Happy Birthday Lee Krasner!
…Lee Krasner, Blue&Black, 1951-53 52 West 8th Street Today Though they met years earlier, in 1941, Krasner and Jackson Pollock fell in love. They married in 1945 and then moved…
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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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de Kooning’s Greenwich Village
…then and now The famous Cedar Tavern was a legendary boite for New York School artists like de Kooning, Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko, and Franz Kline, just to name…
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Off the Grid Podcast
…of the most prominent early figures in the field. Hans Hoffman and Jackson Pollock both lived and created in GreenwichVillage at a pivotal time for the art world. Enjoy the…
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Willem de Kooning Standing on his East 10th Street Stoop, and at the Center of the Art World
…New York supplanted Paris as the center of the art world. With the death of Jackson Pollock in 1956, de Kooning was considered the master of that world. According to…
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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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Lee Krasner Paints Gansevoort Street
…Jackson Pollock, whom she would later support as he hurtled into turbulent superstardom. In 1934, while working on her first murals for the WPA, Krasner produced a separate painting unlike…
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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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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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The Ninth Street Five
…had hung together. They were mostly unknown at the time; Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Robert Rauschenberg, Hans Hoffman, Robert Motherwell, Krasner, Frankenthaler, Hartigan, Mitchell, Resnick…
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When “the Club” Ruled the Art World from East 8th Street
…the 1940s, they were still outsiders in the New York art world, with the exception of Jackson Pollock, who had achieved some public recognition due to a 1949 Life magazine article….
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: 88 East 10th Street
…York supplanted Paris as the center of the art world. With the death of Jackson Pollock in 1956, de Kooning was considered the master of that world. According to Mark…
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The Art of Frederick Brosen
…other notable museums across the country. Brosen earned his M.F.A from Pratt Institute and has been awarded two Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants and the Silver Medal of Honor by the Royal…
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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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Celebrating Immigration in Greenwich Village
…to education and enrichment, Simkhovitch was able to attract the participation and support of such notable figures as Eleanor Roosevelt, Gertrude Whitney, Daniel Chester French, John Sloan, and Jackson Pollock…
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San Remo Café Plaque Unveiling
…Theater. Regulars included Allen Ginsberg, Dylan Thomas, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Miles Davis, Frank O’Hara, Judith Malina, Jackson Pollock, James Baldwin, and Gore Vidal, among many others. Several of…
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Another Summer in the City
…Judith Malina, Jackson Pollock, James Baldwin, and Gore Vidal. Several of these eminent figures first met here, and many immortalized the San Remo in their writings. You can read more…
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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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From Mark Twain and the Lovin’ Spoonful to Tech Hub: The overlooked history of Union Square South
…Walt Whitman. Jackson Pollock attended dinners at the Albert in the 1940s. John Thomas Scopes stayed at the Albert in 1925 while searching for supporters for his upcoming ‘Monkey Trial’…
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Touring Bleecker Street’s Diverse History
…(in 2013 GVSHP placed a plaque at this location honoring the San Remo as an iconic Village institution). Among its regulars were Alan Ginsburg, Jack Kerouac, Jackson Pollock, Willem de…
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Launching “Virtual Village” — Explore and Save #SouthOfUnionSquare
…New York City was led. Where a young Jackson Pollock began the Washington Square Art Show. Where the Italian anti-fascist movement in New York was headquartered. Where Anais Nin hand printed some of her…
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12 social change champions of Greenwich Village
…French, John Sloan, and Jackson Pollock. During and after her leadership at Greenwich House, the organization accomplished many firsts for Settlement Houses, including establishing a nursery school in 1921, an…
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11 landmarks of immigration in Greenwich Village
…and enrichment, Simkhovitch was able to attract the participation and support of such notable figures as Eleanor Roosevelt, Gertrude Whitney, Daniel Chester French, John Sloan, and Jackson Pollock to Greenwich…
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Community Cornerstone: Greenwich House Pottery
…even Jackson Pollock, if only for a summer. Through the faculty, hands-on workshops, and residency program, the Pottery consistently attracts leading names in ceramic artists to the community, more than…
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#SouthofUnionSquare: Home to (even more) Trailblazing Artists, Dancers, Labor Leaders, and Birth Control Advocates
…Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Philip Guston, Motherwell is considered one of the great American Abstract Expressionist painters. Credited by The American Art Book as being the…
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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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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Minna Citron
…Jackson Pollock. The culture, buildings, and social life in the area south of Union Square greatly influenced Citron’s early work, which expertly encapsulates some of the most prominent social issues…
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VILLAGE VOICES: A New Interactive Art and History Exhibit
…Elizabeth Blackwell, Margaret Wise Brown, E. E. Cummings, John W. Draper, Bob Dylan, Martha Graham, Lorraine Hansberry, Larry Kramer, Joan Mitchell, Charlie “Bird” Parker, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Oliver Sacks,…
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Remembering Willem de Kooning
…enclave. Backyard on Tenth Street, 1956 Post World War II, New York supplanted Paris as the center of the art world. With the death of Jackson Pollock in 1956, de…
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The WPA’s Hudson Square Home
…revolutionaries in the field. Some notable artists who were employed by the Federal Art Project include Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Lee Krasner. Artist Margaret Marshall, working on sculpture…
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Happy Birthday, Willem de Kooning!
…Argentina. After World War II, de Kooning became a pioneering figure in the establishment of Abstract Expressionism, along with artists such as Jackson Pollock. Woman I. Willem de Kooning. Image…
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2022 Village Awardee: Astor Place Hair Stylists, 2 Astor Place
…Trichter, landlord Jeff Gural, Global Strategy Group president Jefrey Pollock, former Hillary Clinton aide Howard Wolfson, and popular manager “Big Mike” Saviello. Astor Place Hairstylists was founded as a small…
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VILLAGE VOICES II Launches September 18th
…Draper, Martha Graham, Lorraine Hansberry, Edward Hopper, Helen Levitt, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Joan Mitchell, Joe Papp, Charlie “Bird” Parker, Jackson Pollock, Leontyne Price, Robert Rauschenberg, Maurice Sendak, Patti Smith,…
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Artists’ Homes & Haunts South of Union Square
…movements of the last century and a half. Jackson Pollock and Isamu Noguchi got their start here. The New York School of artists, who shifted the center of the art…
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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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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Atelier 17
…been made of Hayter’s influence and his collaborations with influential artists like Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Reginald Marsh – all of whom have artistic…
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Celebrating the Landmarks of Immigration in the Greenwich Village Historic District
…able to attract the participation and support of such notable figures as Eleanor Roosevelt, Gertrude Whitney, Daniel Chester French, John Sloan, and Jackson Pollock to Greenwich House (the Settlement House…
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“Hidden Figures” #SouthOfUnionSquare: The Unsung Female Engineers Who Built Some of NYC’s Greatest Landmarks
…in the arena for equality and advancement. Some were very prominent figures like W.E.B. DuBois, Jackson Pollock, Billie Holliday, and Martha Graham. Others, however, made a mark in fields traditionally…
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Making a Place for Play — WPA Era Neighborhood Playgrounds in our Neighborhoods
…Village, and NoHo, even employing several well-known artists like Jackson Pollock and Berenice Abbott during the beginning of their careers. As part of its intention to help Americans recover from…
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Robert de Niro, Sr. and the New York School Artists #SouthOfUnionSquare
…York, one of the most prominent galleries for established European modernists and the emerging Abstract Expressionists. Exhibited alongside the highly abstract work of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Clyfford Still,…
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The Forgotten Fifth Avenue South of Washington Square Park
…Jackson Pollock Place, but the final name change, for now at least, was for the section north of Houston Street, renamed LaGuardia Place in 1967. As with so many streets…
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Happy Birthday, Max Ernst
…New York, and was also active in advancing the careers of many influential artists, including Jackson Pollock, who lived and worked in the Village. It would be no stretch of the imagination…
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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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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Sonia Gechtoff
…when her work was exhibited in the influential “Younger American Painters” exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, alongside Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, and Jackson Pollock. Sonia…
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Jewelry Makers of the Village and their Provincetown Summer Studios
…started not in Greenwich Village but in Provincetown, Massachusetts, as its name implies. Provincetown was also the chosen summer home of abstract expressionists, like Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner,…
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February 2024 Programs: Black History Month Events, Artists’ Homes, and More
…Village, that are connected to the great artists and art movements of the last century and a half. Jackson Pollock and Isamu Noguchi got their start here. The New York…
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The Lives of Writers #SouthOfUnionSquare
…also served as a curator at MOMA and wrote the first monograph on artist Jackson Pollock. He was a leading figure in the New York School, an informal group of…
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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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Dorothy Canning Miller: Champion of Abstract Expressionism
…show included James Brooks, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko. “It significantly changed European perceptions of American art,” The New York Times noted in its…
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The San Remo Cafe: Archive Edition
…included Allen Ginsberg, Dylan Thomas, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Miles Davis, Frank O’Hara, Judith Malina, Jackson Pollock, James Baldwin, and Gore Vidal, several of whom first met here. San…
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The Beauty of the University Place & Broadway Corridors
…Foote, Anais Nin, Mark Twain, and Walt Whitman. Jackson Pollock attended dinners at the Albert in the 1940’s. John Thomas Scopes stayed at the Albert in 1925 while searching for…
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Robert Motherwell’s Abstract Expressionism South of Union Square
…Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Philip Guston, Motherwell is considered one of the great American Abstract Expressionist painters. Motherwell became the theorist and leading spokesperson of the…
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