…East 14th Street Artist Studios via Apartments.com. One particularly notable collection of artist studios was located at 30 East 14th Street, a five-story structure built in 1880 as a retail store…
Read More…Villager who made a home at 107 Bank Street with his partner John Cage, and whose studio was for many years located at Westbeth Artists Housing. Cunningham’s life and work is celebrated…
Read More…major studios were more interested in the girl with “the natural gift of comedy” than the group as a whole, and Holliday alone was offered a studio contract. She refused…
Read More…craft. Many of these artists’ homes and studios were located within the Greenwich Village Historic District, one of the city’s oldest and largest historic districts, established in 1969 with more…
Read More…8″ x 11 1/2″. Collection of Christiane H. Citron, Denver, CO. Doris Lee Doris Lee in-studio feeding cat portrait, ca. 1935-1937, 3 x 4 in.; National Museum of Women in…
Read More…image courtesy Victoria Jenssen Janeway’s first studio was located at 67 West 3rd Street, and by late 1945 she had relocated her studio and associated shop to 46 East 8th…
Read More…84 East 10th Street, just two doors down from Willem de Kooning’s famous 88 East 10th Street studio, there once was a Villager whom Elaine de Kooning called “a master…
Read More…Haley via Public Radio International 13. Alex Haley Writing Studio In the 1960s writer Alex Haley conducted over fifty interviews with Malcolm X in a writing studio he rented at 92…
Read More…Chris Archer in the Villager, June 6, 1985 Leslie in his studio in 1950 by Walter Silver, courtesy of the New York Public Library Painter, filmmaker, photographer, and bodybuilder Alfred…
Read More…of the architectural features that define an iconic Village artists studio in this 2014 blog post. Artist studios are still extant in the Village landscape and are just one of…
Read More…The First Presbyterian Church Isaiah, by Tiffany Studios, located on the northern wall of the church nave. Photo: The First Presbyterian Church. The Scotch Presbyterians, by Tiffany Studios, located on…
Read More…The First Presbyterian Church Isaiah, by Tiffany Studios, located on the northern wall of the church nave. Photo: The First Presbyterian Church. The Scotch Presbyterians, by Tiffany Studios, located on…
Read More…the process. As colleagues at NYU, Draper and Morse naturally became associated in their daguerreotype experiments, using the glassed-roof studio atop the University’s main building to try their hands in…
Read More…Edward Hopper and his paintings. Hopper died in 1967 in this studio home two years before the Greenwich Village Historic District was designated. Four sites Hopper featured in his paintings…
Read More…the house as her residence and writing studio. Throughout the 1940s, she shared the home with her partner, socialite Blanche Oelrichs, who used the pen name Michael Strange. Brown wrote…
Read More…at his nearby studio in what is now known as NoHo. This temporary studio was located at 643 Broadway, northwest corner of Bleecker Street, before it was demolished and replaced…
Read More…studio and home of sculptor Chaim Gross and his wife Renee. Gross, whose art can be found in the permanent collections of such institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art…
Read More…the New York Studio School, once the first home of the Whitney. Via Wiki Commons. Since New York has been the center of the art world for nearly three quarters of…
Read More…The 22 homes that are a part of the complex surround a beautiful private garden. The twelve homes along MacDougal Street were built in 1844 on 22 foot wide lots, followed…
Read More…Brown, who also wrote the best-selling children’s story, The Runaway Bunny, used the house as her residence and writing studio. Throughout the 1940s, she shared the home with her partner, socialite Blanche…
Read More…relation to 20th-century art and the development of New York as the center of the art world after World War II, as the home and studio of artist Willem de…
Read More…legendary artistic pasts. GVSHP’s new online tool East Village Building Blocks contains information about every building in the East Village, many of which were the studios and residences of some…
Read More…to motion pictures. Major studios balked, and didn’t see the point. But Warner Brothers, then a smaller outfit, took a leap of faith. They sank $3 million into the Bell…
Read More…he met fellow artist Virginia Admiral, whom he married in 1942. Around this time de Niro, Sr. and Admiral lived and worked in a loft studio in the area South…
Read More…and movements like Abstract Expressionism, the Ninth Street Five, and “The Club.” Lucile Blanch at work in her studio at 30 East 14th Street photographed by the WPA Federal Art…
Read More…By the end of the 1950s, RCA converted the building into their East Coast recording studio and called it the “Webster Hall Studios.” Elvis Presley, Perry Como, Tony Bennett, Frank…
Read More…Square North is also well known for some famous residents. The Realist painter and printmaker Edward Hopper, along with his wife Josephine Hopper, lived in a studio on the top…
Read More…into their home and studio. They added a sculpture studio to the ground floor, which is illuminated by an enormous skylight that underwent extensive restoration work in 2017 and 2018…
Read MoreJoan Mitchell working on Bridge, 1957, in her studio, 60 Saint Marks Place, New York, 1957. Photo: Joan Mitchell and Rudy Burckhardt. Courtesy Artforum. Joan Mitchell (February 12, 1925 – October 30,…
Read More…occupied the building for studio and living space. 830 Broadway 832 Broadway: The ten-story Renaissance Revival style building at 832-834 Broadway was constructed in 1896 for the Commercial Realty Improvement…
Read More…project of subsidized, affordable studio living quarters for artists. This was substantially supported and inaugurated by the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the complex was converted into Westbeth Artists’ Housing in…
Read More…her first dance studio at 66 Fifth Avenue beginning in the 1930s and remained there through at least the 1950s. The studio started off as an all-female dance company, and it was…
Read More…emotional reactivity to her surroundings. Enduring Ornament (1913) Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven The Baroness changed the role of a female body in art through an act of performance in the studio…
Read MoreLeft: Portrait of Walker Evans, Ben Shahn circa 1930. Right: Portrait of Ben Shahn at 23 Bethune Street, Walker Evans circa 1930 When asked about the studio at 20 –…
Read More…Waverly Place. Richie Havens, the iconic singer and guitarist, passed away in 2013 on April 22 at the age of 72. Though originally from Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, by his late…
Read More…1929 151 Bank Street was constructed in the Moderne style for Bell Labs which served as a pioneering experimental sound and motion picture studio. This complex would be the site…
Read More…an adjacent space at 8 West 8th Street was purchased. (This space would become the Whitney Studio.) In 1914, she opened the Whitney Studio Club at 147 West 4th Street,…
Read More…known for its grassroots activism, and for providing studio space and workshops for countless artists,including John Sayles, Luis Guzman, Todd Haynes, Spike Lee and our narrator, John Leguizamo himself. Unfortunately, the CHARAS organization was evicted in…
Read More…1914, Whitney established her Studio in Greenwich Village, presenting exhibitions of works that were otherwise disregarded. In 1916 she commissioned Robert Henri, leader of the movement, to paint a portrait…
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 Morephoto source: www.loc.gov Modern dance pioneer Martha Graham was born on this day, May 11, in 1894. In the 1930’s, Martha Graham’s dance studio was located at 66 5th Avenue….
Read More…what was meant to be a downstairs temporary studio where she taught drop-in yoga classes. “When we opened, just as a yoga studio, we found that many expecting or new…
Read More…Vivian Leigh in the film), a former Southern Belle who finds herself destitute and moves into the two-room New Orleans flat of her sister Stella (Kim Hunter in both) and…
Read More…historian Andrew S. Dolkart can be found here. (left) GVSHP 128 East 13th Street Campaign Logo; (right) Artist Frank Stella in 1964, photo by Ugo Mulas (click photo for source)…
Read More…New York-based African American artists to the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. They kept meeting on a weekly basis in Bearden’s studio to discuss how their art might…
Read More…songwriter Bob Dylan began his stellar career in Greenwich Village in January 1961: His first NYC apartment was at 161 West 4th Street between Jones and Cornelia Streets, and he…
Read More…Sloan maintained a painting studio in the Varitype Building, a tall, Flatiron-shaped loft building at the corner of Sixth Avenue, Cornelia Street, and West 4th Street in Greenwich Village, (built…
Read More…1943-44 — the view looking up Broadway from 12th/13th Street in Greenwich Village, just around the corner from Gee’s home and studio on East 10th Street Nude in Studio, 1952…
Read More…innovator had her first dance studio at 66 Fifth Avenue beginning in the 1930s, remaining here through at least the 1950s. The studio started off as an all-female dance company,…
Read More…the Tenth Street Studio, the first of its kind, purpose-built studio/live-work space for artists, completed in 1858 at 51 West 10th Street. In 1889 a group of accomplished women artists…
Read More…staff member Dr. Joseph O’Dwyer. This method of keeping airways open saved thousands of children from the life-threatening disease diphtheria, an epidemic at the time. Edward Hopper in his studio….
Read More…community. For over a decade old houses were being transformed to studios and their facades remodeled to Mediterranean, Tudor and other romantic fantasies. In 1927 builders MacKathryn & O’Sullivan purchased No. 93,…
Read MoreOn September 22, 1994, the TV show ‘Friends’ premiered on NBC. Airing ten seasons, it was consistently one of the most popular shows on television, and after decades of syndication,…
Read More…1981, the year of her 81st birthday, the theatre was renamed in her honor. HB Theatre 124 Bank Street The HB Studio (the acting studio of renowned theatre artists Herbert…
Read More…NYU campus. Three years later he acquired studio space for himself and his students in the newly-built neo-Gothic University Building (demolished in 1894 to make way for the present Silver…
Read More…three stories in 1894. Elizabeth Olds’ studio was located here from the late 1930s to the late 1950s. Around 1967, the influential publishing house Grove Press opened an office here,…
Read MoreRomare Bearden in his Canal Street studio, 1976. (Photo by Blaine Waller) via Queen City Nerve. Groundbreaking artist, intellectual, and activist Romare Bearden (September 2, 1911 – March 12, 1988)…
Read More…the part”. New York, 1939. Photographer: David E. Scherman. Raphael Soyer, “Office Girl,” 1936. Oil on canvas via the Whitney Museum of American Art. Corner of Moses Soyer’s studio. Moses,…
Read More…live and work until his death in 1967. (NYU owns the studio but has preserved it for visitors and students.) Portrait of Edward Hopper in his studio at 3 Washington…
Read More…unique. In honor of the day, here’s just a brief sampling of some of the embarrassment of riches that can be found between these two numbered streets. 14th Street- 226-240…
Read More…“Father of Video Art,” played a vital role in our neighborhoods’ rich artistic history. Working out of his studio in Westbeth along with his partner and fellow avant-garde artist Shigeko…
Read More…opened a 60-seat black box theatre now known as the Cherry Lane Studio. A24, the independent film and television studio whose films include the Oscar winner “Everything Everywhere All at Once,”…
Read More…neighborhood were once the homes, studios, and everyday gathering spaces of now-famous artists. A prime example includes the homes and studios (or often studios that inadvertently became homes) of Franz…
Read More…Women’s History Museum, was a celebrated artist, educator, and self-described “people’s sculptor.” Selma Hortense Burke, Untitled (Woman and Child), ca. 1950, painted red oak. While her studio was at 88…
Read More…in New York City. In addition to Basquiat’s studio, the home and studios of Robert Mapplethorpe and Chuck Close could also be found on the street at 24 and 20…
Read More…studio and called it the “Webster Hall Studios.” Elvis Presley, Perry Como, Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Harry Belafonte, and Julie Andrews all sang at the studios, and several musicals, including…
Read More…disused former Bell Telephone Labs on the block bounded by West, Bethune, Washington, and Bank Streets along the Greenwich Village waterfront into subsidized housing and studios for artists and space…
Read MoreRoy Lichtenstein In a city filled to the brim with galleries, museums, artists’ studios, and, of course, avid art lovers, we’ve all undoubtedly walked by a display of Pop Art…
Read More…be told as inseparably as he understood them to be. Alex Haley. Courtesy of Bill Haley https://www.pri.org/programs/studio-360/american-icons-autobiography-malcolm-x Ten years later, the writer Alex Haley was working in the Village, writing…
Read More…and an individual New York City landmark in 1965. On September 22, 1892, a group of 1,000 U.S. citizens and 200 Chinese merchants and laborers gathered at The Cooper Union’s…
Read MoreAlex Haley. Source: Courtesy of Bill Haley https://www.pri.org/programs/studio-360/american-icons-autobiography-malcolm-x Pulitzer-prize winning American author Alex Haley was born this day, on August 11, 1921. GVSHP’s Civil Rights & Social Justice Map highlights…
Read More…of Modern Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the Art Institute of Chicago. “For Benny there was no line where his activism…
Read More…Saturday, just two doors down from Jean-Michel Basquiat’s last home and studio, GVSHP and Ayanna Jessica Legros presented a panel exploring the artist, his identity, and his relationship with the NoHo…
Read More…Village homes at their own pace. The self-guided tour also included a bonus site: the former studio of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney at the New York Studio School at 8 West…
Read More…rooftop Village artists studio additions. Quite unusually, she kept the small Greek Revival side windows of the attic intact as she sensitively inserted a new bay window in the center…
Read More…site is 92 Grove Street, where Pulitzer-Prize winning American author, Alex Haley had a writing studio during the 1960’s. Probably best known for his books Roots: The Saga of an American Family…
Read More…before it was destroyed, his studio at the World Trade Center. And he was a great and generous friend to GVSHP. GVSHP did some wonderful programming with Peter over the…
Read More…demolishers dismantle a former sculptor’s studio, the facade of which is painted with the slogans ‘Save the Village’ and ‘Wake Up Mr. Mayor!’ New York, New York, May 19, 1960….
Read More…foster the artistic development of emerging or established artists by providing them with studio space, time, and materials. Consistent with the Pottery’s early mission, the studio also serves a disadvantaged…
Read More…the generous homeowners who opened their homes for our tour, a perfect ticket pick up site provided by the Salmagundi Club, and lovely programs and benefit materials designed by Studio…
Read More…Kelly, Louise Nevelson, Robert Rauschenberg, and Frank Stella to a larger audience from MoMA’s stage. In addition to being a beacon for these artists, she was friends with many of…
Read More…the former Frank Stella studios at 128 East 13th Street, the Anthology Film Archives, and the Pyramid Club at 101 Avenue A in the proposed East Village/Lower East Side Historic…
Read More…as to whether or not it’s a worthy addition to the neighborhood. Finally, Village Preservation reported that the former Frank Stella Studio and early 20th century stable/horse auction mart (and…
Read More…non-profit neighborhood landlord Cooper Square Mutual Housing. She was already familiar with and a member of the New York Theater Studio, her neighbor on the block, whose subscription members are…
Read More…to the Delehanty Institute. From 1978 to 2005, 126-128 East 13th Street served as the studio of highly-influential 20th century artist Frank Stella. Today, the building recalls the era when…
Read More…them the former horse and carriage auction that was artist Frank Stella’s studios at 128 East 13th Street. In 2006 GVSHP got the City to intercede and prevent a plan…
Read More…needed in defense industries.” From 1978-2005, the building was owned by Frank Stella, one of the 20th century’s most notable and influential artists, who used it as his studio. The…
Read More…enjoy these illustrations as well. 126-128 East 13th Street, the former Horse Auction Mart building and studio of artist Frank Stella which GVSHP helped save from demolition and got landmarked….
Read More…the building was converted to other uses. In 1978, the structure was acquired by the painter, printmaker, and sculptor Frank Stella, who used it as his studio until 2005. Click…
Read More…Over the years the Steinberg’s store has served the diverse artists that call the village home including Frank Stella, whose studio was formerly nearby at 128 East 13t Street, and…
Read More…studio, per historian Christopher Gray. The restaurateur also let him live in a small apartment on the site. Every Friday, according to Kilham, the “Four Hour Lunch Club” met, eventually…
Read More…as a studio arts college major who discovered that she found wax carving — the first step in jewelry making — deeply satisfying. She would come home and produce casts…
Read More…seen as legitimate among western artists. The Ashcan School, a group of avant-garde realist painters led by Robert Henri focusing on quotidian city life, and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s Whitney Studio…
Read More…as being “devotees of the ugly,” these artists believed that beauty could be found in ordinary life. Sloan’s diary described the day he found the studio he rented at 2…
Read More…techniques of the Renaissance Old Masters. He took a studio at 6 East 14th Street in 1923 and at 30 East 14th Street from 1928 until his death in 1952….
Read More…Kelly’s artist’s studio at 21 Commerce Street with a tin box containing all his worldly possessions. He promptly moved in. Orry-Kelly wrote that Grant was ill when they first started…
Read More…at the “81” Theatre in Atlanta, Smith began performing her own work. In 1923, she signed to Columbia Records, whose recording studios were located at 55 Fifth Avenue at 12th…
Read More…a few folks from the neighborhood. Workers dismantle Arnold Bergier’s studio, the facade of which is painted with the slogans ‘Save the Village’ and ‘Wake Up Mr. Mayor!’ “Demolition of…
Read More…any home in the Village. In the 1920s, the home had a fourth floor added that includes one of the grandest and most impressive artist studio windows ever constructed, added…
Read More…Surrealist NYC map This interactive tool maps and explores the studios, homes, and collective social spaces of Surrealist artists who took refuge in Greenwich Village after World War II. From…
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