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Remembering Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock 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,…

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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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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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Hans Hofmann and the Village

…who would become one of the foremost Abstract Expressionist painters as well as the wife of Jackson Pollock. Starting in 1937 she attended painting classes on and off at Hofmann’s…

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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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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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de Kooning’s Greenwich Village

…de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, and Jackson Pollock. Franz Kline had an apartment at 242 West 14th Street. A public hearing on the proposed landmark designation of…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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What Style is It? Mid-19th Century Edition

…greatly aided by the publication of pattern books.  The Gothic Revival style was first publicized by Alexander Jackson Davis’s Rural Residences (1837) and then by Andrew Jackson Downing’s Cottage Residences…

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East Village Street Art Lives On

…a tribute to Michael Jackson, titled Black or White, that depicts the singer with half his face as his teenage self of the Jackson Five and the other half as…

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A New Chapter for Local Bookstores

…of McNally Jackson on West 8th Street with its Goods For the Study stationary store offshoot.  McNally Jackson opened its original location in 2004 at 52 Prince St. The bookstore includes a…

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Many Layers of History Throughout 2018

…Marks and 2nd Avenue! Jackson Square Park. Photo courtesy of NYC Parks. Many Layers of History at 8th Avenue and 13th Street: Jackson Square Park Many Layers of History, and…

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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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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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Calvert Vaux and the Village

…the United States in 1850 to work with Andrew Jackson Downing. Downing was a landscape designer and architect, and an advocate for the Gothic Revival style as seen in his…

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Richard Wright in Greenwich Village

…was moved from relative to relative after his mother became partially paralyzed after suffering a stroke. Eventually, he came to live with his grandparents in Jackson, Mississippi. In 1924, Wright…

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Patti Smith

…to a son, Jackson, and daughter, Jesse, something she claims made her a better person. Fred passed away of a heart attack in 1994, and in 1996 she returned to…

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Marlis Momber, an East Village Icon

…the East Village community. She mentions meeting her collaborator, Tyrone Jackson, with whom she later had a child. She also describes the whitewashing of the East Village, literal painting over murals…

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Tony Bennett’s Greenwich Village Start

…urging of activist and artist Harry Belafonte, Bennett joined in the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march for civil rights. They were joined by Mahalia Jackson, Nina Simone, and Joan Baez among others….

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New York Biscuit Stables

…building was designed by the prominent architect Thomas R. Jackson, who was well known as one of the designers of the rebuilt Trinity Church in 1839. In 1892, the New York…

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Captains of Industry

…from the report’s section on “Industrial Monuments:“ 439-445 West 14th Street 439-445 West 14th Street (Thomas Jackson,1892), Gansevoort Market Historic District, designated 2003. Originally stables for Nabisco (headquartered in the…

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149 Second Avenue

…reading by poet Jackson Mac Low, a city license inspector issued a summons citing the New York Coffee House Law of 1962 – a law prohibiting the presentation of ‘entertainment’…

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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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