…assembly-line training center during World War II, and from 1976 to 2005 as the studio where Frank Stella, one of the 20th century’s most important artists, created some of his…
Read More…architectural features, the artist’s studio. So we thought we’d use the occasion of these warm August days to conduct a brief survey of some of our favorite artist’s studio windows…
Read More…African Queen” in the studio at #172. Sadly, #178 has since been demolished. First, for those who might not be familiar, artist’s studios are spaces generally inserted into the upper…
Read More…New York City, it subsequently served as a women’s assembly line training center during World War II, and from 1976 to 2005 as the studio where Frank Stella, one of…
Read More…assembly-line training center during World War II, and from 1976 to 2005 as the studio where Frank Stella, one of the 20th century’s most important artists, created some of his…
Read More…center during World War II, and from 1976 to 2005 as the studio where Frank Stella, one of the 20th century’s most important artists, created some of his most significant…
Read More…landmark the building and save it from demolition.) Most recently, the building served as the studio of Frank Stella, one of the 20th century’s most notable and influential artists. Few…
Read More…by none other than Jimi Hendrix, Electric Lady Studios at 52 West 8th Street was built to provide Hendrix with affordable studio space that would also meet his personal technical…
Read More…Studios at 52 West 8th Street in Greenwich Village. On August 26th, 1970, the studio opened, the only recording artist-owned studio at the time. It provided Hendrix with affordable studio space that would…
Read More…as the Bryant Park Studios and the Central Park Studios. In the Village, however, artists’ studios tended to be carved out of the top floors of ‘tenementized’ row houses —…
Read More…barrier to entry for jewelry-making was lower than for other types of art. Between the 30s and the 60s, modernist jewelry studios sprang up all around Greenwich Village, with many…
Read More…West 14th Street as their studio address at various points throughout the 1930s. A sketchbook by Lena Gurr (who later kept a studio in the building) lists 240 West 14th…
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…and wares, by the 1960s it was producing an entirely different product. It became the home of the highly sought-after Apostolic Recording Studios, the first 12-track recording studio in the…
Read More…Museum of Natural History on Lobel’s silver sculptures of animals. Following these exhibitions, Lobel opened up a summer studio in Provincetown, which he ran until 1953. His studio in New…
Read More…30 East 14th Street Artist Studios via Apartments.com. Facade of 30 East 14th Street in 1959. May Janko and Agnes Hart kept studios there. One particularly notable collection of artist studios…
Read More…the 20th century. Façade of 30 East 14th Street Artist Studios via Apartments.com. Facade of 30 East 14th Street in 1959 30 East 14th Street, the middle building of the…
Read More…City), the building later served as a women’s assembly-line training center during World War II, and from 1978 to 2005 as the studio of artist Frank Stella, who created many…
Read More…his studio, 1986. Image via LPC application “I love the idea,” said Dorothy in the NY Times, “that the studio which Roy loved so much will continue to have meaning.”…
Read MoreRPM Studios We are very pleased to share our latest addition to our oral history collection: RPM studios founder Rob Mason. For more than a quarter century, Robert Mason operated…
Read More…to the NYSS. These donations do not go to Village Preservation. Since its founding in 1964, the New York Studio School has been an innovator in arts education, prioritizing daily…
Read More…loft building Studio 35, the space remained an important locale for artists to gather and learn from each other. The Lively Friday evening gatherings at Studio 35 featured conversations and lectures from…
Read More…1964, the New York Studio School has been an innovator in arts education, prioritizing daily continuity of study for artists through work in the studio. In 1965, the school moved…
Read MoreNew York Studio School Tour SOLD OUT In our historic neighborhoods, each day we pass by fascinating buildings rich in culture. Do you ever pause and wonder “what’s behind those…
Read MoreTour and Class Audit of HB Studio Established in 1945 by the renowned Viennese actor/director Herbert Berghof, the Herbert Berghof (HB) Studio provides professional theater training and practice for aspiring…
Read MoreTour and Class Audit of HB Studio Established in 1945 by the renowned Viennese actor/director Herbert Berghof, the Herbert Berghof (HB) Studio provides professional theater training and practice for aspiring…
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…notice of M. Fecarotta or of the Iris Photo Studio, but it is possible that the studio was in another part of the building and relied on word of mouth—there’s…
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Read More…an earlier wave of Village gentrification. And although it was referring to an artist’s studio and not a studio apartment, many similarities exist to today’s issues of displacement and gentrification….
Read More…North and West 8th Street. Varying in height, many of these buildings were converted to artist studios in the early 20th century as more and more creative talent called the…
Read More…birthday to unveil a plaque marking his former home and studio. That building at 741-45 Washington Street (near Bethune Street) has now become the home of the Whitney Museum’s Independent…
Read MoreGO WEST! Westbeth Studio Open House Fundraiser Co-sponsored by the Westbeth Artists Residents Council Join us in celebrating 30 years of Village Preservation and 40 years of Westbeth! Get an…
Read More…Greenwich Village waterfront into subsidized housing and studios for artists, and space for arts, cultural, educational, and community institutions. The adaptive reuse process was undertaken from 1968-70 by a careful collection…
Read MorePlaque Unveiling: Chaim Gross Home and Studio Born to a Jewish family in the Carpathian Mountains, sculptor and educator Chaim Gross’s first brush with art came while growing up watching…
Read MoreRestoration & Conservation with EverGreen Architectural Arts: A Studio Tour and Talk From plasterwork to decorative painting, from new artwork to historic fine art, from surface preparation and quality coatings…
Read MoreThe Puppets of the Village Parade: a studio tour with Halloween Parade founder Ralph Lee In 1974, Ralph Lee, in conjunction with the Theater for the New City, organized the…
Read MoreGVHD50 Historic Plaque Unveiling: Alex Haley Home and Studio Alex Haley (1921-1992) lived and maintained a writing studio in Greenwich Village. Beginning in 1963 he conducted fifty in-depth interviews with…
Read More…the property, the current owner says Levine lived here for decades. According to the homeowner, Levine used the top floor of the house as his studio. Although it’s now a…
Read MoreIllustrated Lecture: Greenwich Village’s Tenth Street Studios The Tenth Street Studio Building in Greenwich Village, created by Richard Morris Hunt specifically and exclusively as commercial space for artists, was a…
Read MoreA Visit to the Studio of Rogers Partners Architects Join us for this exclusive behind-the-scenes look into one of New York’s top architecture firms. Village Preservation trustee and noted architect…
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Ruth Cushman was the granddaughter of Don Alonzo Cushman (1792-1875), the developer behind the elegant Greek Revival rowhouses on West 20th Street known as Cushman Row (1839-40), which you can…
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Read More…one another and the world. Bernice Abbott’s 1938 photo of the Tenth Street Studio Building. MCNY The Tenth Street Studios building, located at 51 West 10th Street, was built in…
Read More…lived here. 10th Street Studio Berenice Abbott photographed the building in 1938. Photograph from the collection of Museum of the City of New York The Tenth Street Studio Building 51…
Read More…the time) artist-run recording studio at 52 West 8th Street after experiencing cost overruns and creative frustration at traditional commercial studios. While Electric Lady Studios would go on to become one of the…
Read More…recording studios. The renowned record-producer, civil rights activist, and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inductee John Hammond made his very first recordings at the Columbia Phonograph Recording Studios at 55…
Read More…of the first boutique studios in the city, RPM Studios was founded in 1976 by classically trained electronic composer turned studio owner Robert Mason. The studio was known for being…
Read More…he added another room, Studio O, on the fifth floor. Howard Daum “Studio with Black Cat,” 1954 of the artist’s studio at 30 East 14th Street. Photo courtesy of the…
Read More…the best gear available. Electric Lady Studios established the precedent of artists owning their own studio space rather than relying on studios owned by recording companies. The building at 52…
Read More…member of the band worked for Rob in the studio at the desk, as an assistant, gopher, or even an intern. Rob intended to use the studio for his own…
Read More…American assemblage art, hard-edge painting, and Pop Art — moved into his studio here in 1955. While living here, Indiana claimed, he could see into Willem de Kooning’s studio at…
Read More…the purpose of the studio changed. In 1912, Shinn had a stage installed converting the cottage studio into a 55 seat theater for his newly founded theater group, the Waverly…
Read More…Full details online here. 12pm- 3pm Special Tour: The Edward Hopper House The Edward Hopper Studio was the home and studio of Edward Hopper from 1913 until his death in…
Read More…Whitney Studio Club at 10 West 8th Street, and – his first solo exhibition – at Gallery 144 in New York City. Also in 1932, Gross married Renee Nechin (1909-2005),…
Read More…artist Isamu Noguchi’s first studio was located at the Clay Club. His studio and residence, listed as 33 MacDougal Alley, was located at the rear of 4 West 8th Street…
Read More…York Studio School Located along MacDougal Alley, the former studio of heiress and artist Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney served as our ticket pick-up location in 2018. The studio’s most arresting feature…
Read More…II, by Frank Stella Another trailblazer found his base of operations just down the street from the Martha Graham studio: Frank Stella. A painter, printmaker, and sculptor, Stella has shaken…
Read More…event recording now! Tour the South of Union Square 128 East 13th Street, Frank Stella’s Studio, as taken by Hew Evans of Village Preservation Virtual Plaque Unveiling: Frank Stella’s East…
Read More…Village-based HB Studio, founded by her husband Herbert Berghof. Hagen was also a an uncompromising human rights advocate. Though she was placed on the Hollywood blacklist for a number of…
Read More…(1909-2005). In 1963, the Grosses converted a four-story art storage warehouse in Greenwich Village into their home and studio. They added a sculpture studio to the ground floor, which is…
Read More…influential art studio to make a home in the environs around South of Union Square was Atelier 17, a printmaking studio founded in Paris circa 1927 by Stanley William Hayter….
Read More…North, the long time home and studio of painter Edward Hopper. 8 West 8th Street has served as home to the New York Studio School since 1964. The buildings were…
Read More…Keith Haring’s studio. 1. Pfaff’s, 647 Broadway Pfaff’s beer cellar in 1857 with Walt Whitman seated, via Wiki Commons This beer and wine cellar in the lower level of what…
Read More…and its acoustics, said he recalled Hendrix living in a cottage at 50 West 8th Street one wall away from Electric Lady Studios. Jimi and producers at Electric Lady Studios….
Read More…once ubiquitous in this area and now rare. The infamous “flame” fireplace in Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s studio. The tour began at the original Whitney, now the New York Studio School,…
Read More…studios and workshops in the area South of Union Square. Siqueiros (center) and members of the Experimental Workshop in front of portraits of American Communist Party Candidates for president and…
Read More…Khalil Gibran’s Studio on West 10th Street Gibran’s Studio Apartment at 51 West 10th Street The now-demolished 10th Street Studios were built in 1857 by James Boorman Johnson and…
Read MoreThe ground floor studio of sculptor Chaim Gross. Image courtesy of the Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation Off the Grid is highlighting the winners of GVSHP’s 2015 Village Awards, in…
Read More…Sessions at Studio 35 (Biala background left). From The Artists’ Sessions at Studio 35 (1950), edited by Robert Goodnough. One memorable passage in the conference transcripts concerns the question: “How…
Read More…Artist Studios Artist’s studios on Bleecker Street, via Village Preservation Greenwich Village may not be the only place in New York with artist studio windowsinserted into old buildings. But no place…
Read More…exhibition celebrating historic change-makers and trailblazers of our neighborhoods. Our newest plaques were unveiled, marking the former studio of artist Frank Stella at 128 East 13th Street and the personal…
Read More…from which its name is derived. The building was specifically intended to attract artists, with 10 one-room studios with casement windows, similar to the “artists’ studios” which had been popping…
Read More…be similarly converted and saved. Photo by Beyond My Ken / Wiki Commons 128 East 13th Street From 1975 to 2005, this former horse auction mart housed the studio of artist Frank Stella….
Read More…October of 1936 Hofmann moved the school to 52 West 9th Street in Greenwich Village (and the GVHD), a still-extant rowhouse with a dramatic two-story studio window within a setback…
Read More…Former Studio, Smithsonian Magazine, July 12 Angelina Jolie Takes Over Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Former NYC Studio, Hyperallergic, July 10 Angelina Jolie is renting Jean Michel-Basquiat’s last New York apartment, Daily Herald…
Read More…central to the Abstract Expressionist school of the 1940’s and 1950’s. He had previously had a studio on Fourth Avenue but the space at 88 East 10th Street served as…
Read More…studio on Washington Square. That studio remains preserved at 3 Washington Square North, where Edward Hopper lived and worked for 53 years. This is but one of many sites in…
Read MoreFrederic Church was a central figure of the Hudson River School, and kept a studio at the 10th Street Studio Building. (This post is part of a series called Village…
Read More…connection to the culturally rich but endangered area of Greenwich Village and the East Village South of Union Square, home of (among other great sites) the legendary RPM Recording Studios…
Read More…– 14th Street” New York Public Library Digital Collections. 74-76 5th Avenue circa 2019 via Google Maps. Isabel Bishop’s 9 West 14th Street Studio (no longer extant) highlighted in red,…
Read More…way for St. Vincent’s Memorial Park and the New York City AIDS Memorial, which now stand in their place. New York Studio School; photo via Wikimedia Hopper’s big break came in…
Read More…striving to make sense out of the constrained circumstances we find ourselves in, and still are finding and creating new ways to keep us thinking and engaged. HB Studios on…
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