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,…
Read MoreInfluential 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…
Read More…landmarked. Jackson Pollock lived a relatively short, but extremely productive artistic life. It is not a surprise that most of his prolific years were spent in the Village, influenced by…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…of the Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Jackson Pollock’s Landscape with Steer (around 1936-37) The Museum of Modern Art, New York/Scala, Florence There is…
Read MoreShirley Jackson and son Laurence in Greenwich Village. Courtesy of Laurence Jackson Hyman. Halloween is right around the corner, so for this installment of Village People, let’s take a look…
Read MoreJackson Square Park. Photo courtesy of NYC Parks. This post is part of a series about Village blocks that correspond to calendar dates. Once again, another August date corresponds with…
Read MoreAt 251 West 13th Street, just east of Greenwich and 8th Avenues, sits one of the most beautiful and interesting structures in our neighborhood. What was once the Jackson Square…
Read MoreNos. 12 and 14 West 12th Street in 1888. Image courtesy of the Magazine of American History. Architect Alexander Jackson Davis was born on July 24, 1803. Davis, one of…
Read More…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”…
Read More…(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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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….
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…Doughboy, which commemorates local men who fought in World War I. Jackson Square via Google Street View Jackson Square, at Greenwich Avenue and 13th Street, dates to 1826 and used…
Read More…until their dispersal from the East Village in the early 20th century. The Jackson Square Branch in 1890, via Wikimedia Commons In 1888, the NYFCL expanded with two new branches, one…
Read MoreOn October 30, 1969, history was made in Greenwich Village when artists Patricia Grey and Nigel Jackson opened Acts of Art, the first black-owned gallery in downtown Manhattan at 31…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…(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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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….
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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’…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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,…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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,…
Read More…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,…
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…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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,…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…neighborhoods, including Franz Kline and Jackson Pollock, were instrumental in his development. These relationships fostered an environment of experimentation and collaboration, as they collectively sought to redefine art in the…
Read More…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…
Read More…country, he was among the first professional architects here and started the first architectural firm, later joined by Alexander Jackson Davis, another seminal figure in 19th-century American architecture. His work…
Read More…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…
Read More…E. B. DuBois. Its early members included Esther Cooper Jackson and James Jackson. The president of Howard University, Dr. Morderci Johnson, addressed the SNYC expressing his belief that the emergence…
Read More…Queens and the Bronx with the highest concentrations of landmark designations in those boroughs like Jackson Heights (bottom l.) and the lower Grand Concourse (bottom r.) actually saw among the…
Read More…Historic District, SoHo, and Westbeth, as well as districts as diverse as Bedford-Stuyvesant and the Grand Concourse, Jackson Heights and Park Slope. Without landmark designation, many of these sites and…
Read More…and antiques all lit up on a 7th Avenue corner? And maybe my favorite spot of all, Jackson Square! Jackson Square …
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…by Horace Greely, Henry Ward Beecher, and Peter Cooper. In 1888, the Jackson Square branch at 251 West 13th Street was opened (extant, Greenwich Village Historic District); the lot, building,…
Read More…unique song in many ways. Not only is this politically charged track danceable, it also has the memorable call and response “Doo doo wop,” which was recorded with the Jackson…
Read More…East Village intersection offers a two-fer on building-size public art. The five-story structure on the southeast corner features a mural honoring Michael Jackson by Brazilian street artist Eduardo Kobra, installed…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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’…
Read More…and The Wall Street Journal Alec Baldwin buys a posh pre-war pad in the Devonshire House (casasugar) Bob Giraldi, Michael Jackson’s ‘Beat It’ director, sells in 176 Perry (NY Observer)…
Read More…a cruise-themed Perry Street pad? (Curbed) Photos of Saturday’s Lightsaber Battle in Washington Square Park (Gothamist) 88 Bedford townhouse goes rental and asks $35K/month….One Jackson Square Penthouse asks $30K/month (Curbed)…
Read More…becoming a ‘Village Getaway?’ (Architect’s Newspaper) Fire at Il Cantinori caused by a kitchen explosion (Eater) For sale: A loft owned by Aaron Burr & occupied by Jackson Pollack (Curbed)…
Read More…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…
Read MoreWalking near Jackson Square in the West Village, you may have wondered what will become of the site of the former Lukoil gas station. Located at the southwest corner of…
Read More…the structure was built on an empty lot on a block populated with private homes and horse stables. It was designed by architect Robert R. Jackson for the Board of…
Read More…William S. Burroughs on the left. In addition to Vidal, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Dylan Thomas, James Agee, Frank O’Hara, Miles Davis, William Styron, Jackson Pollack, James Baldwin and…
Read More…said Daniel Dromm, an openly-gay member of the NYC Council (Jackson Heights) and former NYC public school teacher. “A large part of the organizing that went on in the early…
Read More…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…
Read More…proposed and fought for, designated in 2010. Jackson Pollack lived at #46 (r.). 94 Greenwich Street, in the Financial District This house was built in 1799; located just south of…
Read More…end of a work week. Piano teacher Nnenna Ogwo played “Four Inventions for Piano” by African American composer Ulysses Kay (1917-1995). Voice teacher Walker Jermaine Jackson sang the tenor part…
Read MoreAs we near the end of 2014, we thought we’d look back on the several dozen exciting lectures, book talks, exhibitions, walking tours, forums, panels, and community meetings conducted by…
Read More…Sullivan Gardens, the St. Mark’s Historic District, SoHo, and Westbeth, as well as districts as diverse as Bedford-Stuyvesant and the Grand Concourse, Jackson Heights and Park Slope. Without landmark designation, many…
Read More…Boerum Hill; Jackson Heights, Hamilton Heights (Sugar Hill), and the South Street Seaport, among many others. The Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, Grand Central Terminal, and the Woolworth Building all…
Read More…Streets. Also known as 110-118 Greenwich Avenue, the building was constructed in 1882 to the designs of renowned architect George F. Pelham as studio apartments. Originally known as “The Jackson…
Read More…significant changes to its appearance since it was built, “designed in the Anglo-Italianate style by architect Thomas R. Jackson.” The building first served as Grammar School 47, an all girls…
Read More…Lillian Gish, George Grizzard, Rex Harrison, Rosemary Harris, Dana Ivey, Anne Jackson, Salome Jens, James Earl Jones, Frances McDormand, Leonard Melfi, Eve Merriam, Joe Namath, Geraldine Page, Mary Louise Parker,…
Read More…Not Your Negro, based on Baldwin’s unfinished text Remember This House, and directed by Raoul Peck. Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, the film explores the history of racism in America…
Read More…mentions meeting her collaborator, Tyrone Jackson, with whom she later had a child. Momber also mentions Andy Warhol and briefly describes their friendship. A photo of the Umbrella House taken…
Read More…NBC, MTV, and in The New York Post. He’s also a well-respected comedy roast battler. Erin Jackson: also a fan favorite and returning for a third consecutive year, Erin was a…
Read More…existing buildings. The house went through some interesting ownership changes over the years. By 1839 Jackson Marine Insurance Company owned and occupied No. 23 and No. 25. Then around 1853,…
Read More…directed by Raoul Peck. Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, the film explores the history of racism in America. Unfortunately, one impotant element of Baldwin’s life in France will not be…
Read More…up. And wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; Accra, Ghana; New York City; Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; or Memphis, Tennessee — the…
Read More…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…
Read More…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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