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,…
Read MoreJackson 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…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…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…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…Street View Jackson Square, at Greenwich Avenue and 13th Street, dates to 1826 and used to be bordered by Jackson Hall on its south (since demolished), which was once the…
Read More…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 no longer extant at 226…
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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…(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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…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…they were involved. Sources The Encyclopedia of New York City, edited by Kenneth T. Jackson, Lisa Keller, and Nancy Flood Max Eastman: A Life by Christoph Irmscher New York City…
Read More…Town and Alexander Jackson Davis. The mansion broke ground with several architectural innovations—a sectioned Greek key pediment and a “paneled” front façade accomplished by slightly recessing the two outer bays….
Read More…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…
Read More…of 77 Eighth Avenue on the left side of the image. The 2019 photo shows One Jackson Square at 122 Greenwich Avenue, which was constructed in 2010. 70-72 Eighth Avenue…
Read More…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…
Read More…the stables that backed up the homes on Washinton Square North in 1833. The street was officially named in 1883. Fun Fact: MacDougal alley was once home to Jackson Pollack…
Read More…she began piano lessons with a local teacher at age five. When Leontyne was 14, she was taken on a school trip to hear a recital in Jackson, Mississippi by…
Read More…the former Astor Library (now the Public Theater) or the former Jackson Square Library, now a private home and offices (after serving as a church for a while). One thing…
Read More…New York City: Second Edition edited by Kenneth T. Jackson, Lisa Keller, and Nancy Flood Historical Dictionary of American Theater by James Fisher Ira Aldridge Collection, 1807-1867, Southern Illinois University…
Read More…It was designed in the Greek Revival style, reportedly by Alexander Jackson Davis and Ithiel Town. Brevoort was one of the first to build on Fifth Avenue, and his stately…
Read More…gentrifying Queens, which had the sharpest rise in housing prices, two of the most affordable neighborhoods were also the borough’s most extensively landmarked, with little new construction — Jackson Heights…
Read More…in Jackson, Mississippi by Marion Anderson, a black contralto who was a critical figure in the struggle for black artists to overcome racial prejudice in the United States during the…
Read More…of 1964, a city license inspector appeared at a reading by poet Jackson Mac Low at Le Metro, and issued a summons, citing the New York Coffeehouse Law of 1962,…
Read More…arched doorway, Freie Bibliothek u Lessehalle (Free Library and Reading Room). Three years later, the New York Free Circulating Library built its new Jackson Square Branch in a graceful Flemish-style…
Read More…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…
Read More…1938 and raised in Jackson Heights, Queens, as well as upstate New York and East Atlantic Beach, where his father built the family a house in 1930. In his oral…
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 MoreAfter the Supreme Court’s decision in DOBBS v.JACKSON WOMEN’S HEALTH ORGANIZATION overturning Roe v. Wade was released on Friday, June 24, people took to the streets. It was no surprise…
Read More…the state to Jacksonville where library students were only allowed to check the book out with a permission slip signed by their parents. Nevertheless, the autobiography has stood the test…
Read More…more about the roles our local libraries — not just Ottendorfer but also Astor (today’s Public Theatre) and Jackson Square — played in shaping the New York Public Library system…
Read More…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….
Read More…rappers from New Jersey. Just weeks after the hit was released, on August 12, 1979, “Big Bank Hank” Jackson, “Wonder Mike” Wright, and “Master Gee” O’Brien, who collectively went by…
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…
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…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…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…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…
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