ARTISTS
Includes fine artists, photographers,
illustrators and designers
120 east 10th
Diane
Arbus
319 E 72nd Arbus lived here between 1954 and 1958. Number 319
no longer exists.
71 Washington Place in 1958 Arbus, with her husband Allen, opened a
photography studio on th first floor. They lived in the same building.
121 1/2 Charles St. After her seperation from her husband, the
photographer moved here with her two daughters. They lived here for 10
years, moving out in June 1968.
120 East 10th Diane Arbus lived here 1968-70.
Arbus died in 1971.
Identical Twins, 1967
57 Great Jones St
Jean-Michel
Basquiat
57 Great Jones Street
Basquiat died accidentally of mixed-drug toxicity (he had been
combining cocaine and heroin, known as "speedballing") at his Great
Jones Street loft/studio in 1988.
4 East 74th St
Marc Chagall
4 East 74th St
Chagall and his wife fled to New York from Paris in
1941 after the Nazi occupation. They lived in a apartment in this
building.
75 Riverside Drive. After his wife's death in 1944 he moved in with his
daughterat this address.
Me and My Village (1911)
20 Bond St
Chuck Close
Chuck
Close,
Big Self-Portrait, 1967-1968
20 Bond Street
Close has lived and
worked for 20 years at the artist cooperative building 20 Bond Street.
48 Bond Street Close and his
wife Leslie paid $5.95 million for a
cond-op unit at this building in 2008, but have not moved in.
Hotel
des Artistes, today
Howard
Chandler
Christy
Hotel
des Artistes—1 West 67th St.
In 1918 Christy became the first tenant of the Hotel
des Artistes. He remained in his magnificent two-story studio
for the rest of his career.
Christy painted the murals for the building's famous restaurant,
Café des Artistes (1934 upper level, 1942 lower level).
"Gee!! I wish I were a man"(1917)
156 W 22nd St. today
88 East 10th today
Willem
de
Kooning
145 W 21st St. This was deKooning's first apartment in NY. 1935
156 West 22nd St. He moved to this loft in 1936. In 1942 he moved to
larger space on the floor above and did a lot of work renovating the
space. It was during this time that he got engaged to Elaine Fried.
This space was big enough for two artists to live and work. They
married in1943. Rent here was $35 a month. In December of 1945, they
were evicted from the building. This was heartbreaking for deKooning.
They had to find a place to live quickly and, with the offer from a
friend, moved into a tiny cold-water flat on Carmine, just off 6th Ave.
The deKooings were living in virtual poverty during this time. Rent was
$17 a month.
85 Fourth Ave, (near 11th
St) Second
floor
Working in Carmine St apartment was impossible, so de Kooning found
this
space to work in in 1946. He did very little to fix up the space,
having learned a lesson from his experience with the 22nd St. loft.
The rent was $35 so de Kooning split the space with Jack Tworkov. This
period was a low point for de Kooning. He and Elaine eventually split.
It was during this time that he became very good friends with Franz Kline.
88 East
Tenth St (between 3rd and 4th Ave)
In the fall of 1952 moved to this address. de Kooning was starting to get acceptance in the art
world by this time. He and Elaine were no longer living together.
Unlike the Fourth Ave studio, he took pains to fix this place up. His
space was the top floor, rear.
831 Broadway, top floor 1960. At this point de Kooning could afford a better
studio. He kept his studio on tenth and did massive renovation to this
new space on Broadway. Not much painting was accomplished during this
period as he was pooring all his energy into the renovation.
In the mid sixties he moved out of the city to Long Island.
Woman and Bicycle, 1952-53
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Marshall Chess Club
28 West 10th
Marcel
Duchamp
28 West 10th
Surrealist Marcel Duchamp moved to No. 28 in the
late 1950s to be near the Marshall Chess Club at 23 West 10th. He had a
lifelong passion for chess and if fact gave up making art from 1926 to
1934 to indulge this passion.
Detective novelist Dashiell Hammett
lived at this address from 1947
to 1952.
The Marshall Chess Club
is one of the oldest and strongest chess clubs
in the United States. The club has been the site of several rounds of
the U.S. Chess Championship, and Bobby Fischer played in the 1965
Capablanca Memorial Tournament being held in Havana, Cuba via teletype.
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2
(1912). Philadelphia Museum of Art.
27 West 67th st
Milton Glaser
27 West 67th st
He and his wife, Shirley, lived here in a 3rd floor
duplex apartment for 30 years.
They moved in 2007 to a condo in Chelsea.
Glaser's “I ‘Heart’ New York” was logo was
a pro bono project he did for the city in the mid-70's
Peggy
Guggenheim
Peggy Guggenheim and
Jackson Pollock standing in front of "Mural" installed at
155 E61
St
440 E. 51st
Max Ernst, the Surrealist painter, and Guggenheim, the wealthy
art collector,
met in Europe. They returned to New York in 1941, married, and leased
this town house.
This building was called Hale House because it is thought to be the
spot where Nathen Hale was hanged during the American Revolution.
The marraige lasted until 1943.
155 East 61st Peggy was not an artist herself but was very
influential in the art
world in the first half of the 20th century. She supported a number of
artists and in 1943 she took on Jackson Pollock . As part of the
deal she
comissioned a large mural for the entrance hall of this duplex
apartment. This is where Jackson Pollock’s “Mural” was installed. The
installation was difficult. The painting was a little too big. After
drinking all day, when the painting was finally in place, he famously
walked
in on the party that was being held in the apartment, unzipped his
pants and urinated into the fireplace.
676 Broadway today
Keith Haring
676 Broadway (between 3rd St &
Bond St)
Haring's studio was on the fifth floor of this
building.
Haring achieved his first public attention
with chalk drawings in the subways of New York
52 W 8th today
Hans
Hofmann
Photo by Kay Bell
Reynal
52 West 8th St—Hofmann's
School
In 1933 Hofmann established a school here in a
single large room above the 8th St Playhouse.
Hofmann was renowned not only as an artist but as a teacher of art.
Hofmann began teaching in 1933 at the Art Students League of New York.
Leaving the League in the mid 1930s Hofmann opened his own schools in
New York. Many famous or notable artists studied with Hofmann in New
York. These included: Lee Krasner, Helen Frankenthaler, Gerome
Kamrowski, Joseph Plaskett, William Ronald, Joan Mitchell, Michael
Goldberg, Ray Eames, Larry Rivers, Jane Frank, Nell Blaine, Robert de
Niro, Sr., Jane Freilicher, Allan Kaprow, Red Grooms, Wolf Kahn,
Marisol Escobar, Nicholas Krushenick, Burgoyne Diller, Mercedes Matter,
James Gahagan, Erle Loran, Louisa Matthíasdóttir, Judith
Godwin, Lynne Mapp Drexler, and Donald Jarvis.
88 East 10th
Hofmann moved in after de Kooning.
Hearld, 1963
Berkley Art Museum, University of California
3 Washington Square N
Edward
Hopper
Hopper in his
apartment/studio on Washinton Square
Three Washington Square North
Hopper lived here from December 1913 until his death in May 1967. At
first he had the back room on the top floor of the four story walk-up.
In 1932 he took the front room as well.
Morning Sun, 1952
There is a parking lot there now
Jasper Johns
278 Pearl St (1954)
In the spring of 1954 Jasper Johns went in on the puchase of this
condemded, brick warehouse with a friend, Rachel Rosenthal.
They moved in in the summer, Rachel taking the top floor and Johns
taking the floor beneath. Rauschenberg lived around the corner on
Fulton St. (exact address unknown).
In the summer of 1955 Rachel moved to California and Rauschenberg took
over her space. This started the period when Johns and Rauschenberg
were very close, seeing each other everyday and critiquing each other's
work and competing for recognition.
The building is gone. There is a parking lot in it's place.
Three Flags, 1958
60 E 9th is in it's place
Franz Kline
52 East Ninth St (mid 1940s)
This particular building was home to several
artists. Below Kline lived John Ferren
and his wife, Rea, also a painter, and in another apartment, Conrad Marca-Relli and his
wife.
According to New York Songlines,
Franz
Kline
lived
in
#52
until
it
was
demolished
in 1953.
de Kooning lived
nearby on E10th and he and Kline became inseparable
friends. During this time Kline was popular among his artist friends in
the neighborhood, but not respected as an artist. It wasn't until a
decade later that he found the style that he is remembered for.
Untitled, 1957
11 East 67th St
Jeff Koons
11 E 67th
In it's early years, this house was owned by Joseph
B. Bloomingdale, founder of the store.
46 East Eigth St
Lee Krasner
Krasner
and
Pollock
in
Springs
46 East Eigth St
Krasner lived here with Jackson Pollack before they
moved to Springs, NY.
307 West 11th
Annie Leibowitz
307 West 11th
Jack Kerouac revised On the Road
here at his girlfriend Helen Weaver's
courtyard apartment in the 1950s.
Now owned by photographer Annie
Leibowitz; her renovation is creating controversy.
220 E 63 St
Stan Lee
Stan
Lee
and
Spider-Man
220
East 63rd Street
From 1975 to 1980 Lee owned a two-bedroom condominium on the 14th floor.
Lee was born in 1922 in New York City in the apartment of his
Romanian-born Jewish immigrant parents, Celia (née Solomon) and
Jack Lieber,at the corner of West
98th Street and West End Avenue.
With several artist co-creators Lee co-created Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor, Daredevil,Doctor Strange, and many other
fictional characters, Lee subsequently led the expansion of Marvel
Comics from a small division of a publishing house to a large
multimedia corporation.
222 Bowery
Fernand
Léger
222 Bowery
Léger had a studio here 1940-41.
190 Bowery
Jay Maisel
190 Bowery (corner Spring and
Bowery) Germania Bank Building
Maisel is an advertising photographer. Long abandoned by 1966, this
building was bought by Maisel, who still lives there with his wife and
daughter, the sole occupants of the building's 72 rooms. (Roy Lichtenstein rented out the
fourth floor for a while.) The exterior is often used as a canvas for
street art; Keith Haring used to chalk babies on it.
Maisel's purchase is seen as a real-estate fairy tale: His $102,000
purchase is now worth $30-50 million. But it was a very different
neighborhood in those days: ''Every single thing that can come out of a
human body has been left on my doorstep,'' Maisel said.
source: nysonglines.com
Piet
Mondrian
345
E 56th Street
(353 E 56th): A 22-story apartment building from 1960 is on the site of
353 E. 56th. Painter Piet Mondrian moved in 1939 after fleeing the Nazi
invasion of Holland and then the London Blitz. He painted Broadway
Boogie Woogie, now at MOMA, in a tiny apartment here.
15 East 59th St
The great painter spent the last four months of his
life in a fourth floor apartment at this site. An office building has
replaced his apartment.
525
Lexington Ave today
Georgia O'Keefe
Photo
by
Alfred
Stieglitz
1918
Shelton Hotel—525 Lexington Avenue (Now the New
York Marriot East Side (Between 48th and 49th Streets)
In 1925 she and Alfred Stieglitz
moved to the Shelton taking an
apartment on the 30th floor of the new building. They would live here
for 12 years. With a spectacular view, Georgia began to paint the city.
The building was depicted in some of the works of these two legendary
tenants, O'Keefe the painter and Stieglitz the photographer.
Radiator Building - Night, 1927
49 East
63rd St
Maxfield Parrish
49 East 63rd St
When Parrish was 48 and already famous, he spent the
winter of 1918-1919 painting here. He often spent the cold months in
the north with his work,
while his wife spent the winter in the south.
46 East 8th St. today
46 Carmine St. today
Jackson
Pollock
47 Horatio St
46 Carmine St
76 W Houston St
46 East Eigth St
Pollock moved to NY in 1930. Too unstable to live by
himself, he shared small, cheap, unheated apartments with one or the
other of his brothers. In 1935, Pollock moved into a large
floor-through at 46 E 8th with brother Charles. When Charles and his
wife moved out, Lee Krasner moved in. The couple moved
to Springs, NY in 1945.
There is a parking lot there now
Robert Rauschenberg
278 Pearl St (1955)
In the spring of 1954 Jasper Johns went in on the puchase of this
condemded, brick warehouse with a friend, Rachel Rosenthal.
They moved in in the summer, Rachel taking the top floor and Johns
taking the floor beneath. Rauschenberg lived around the corner on Fulton St. (exact address unknown).
In the summer of 1955 Rachel moved to California and Rauschenberg took
over her space. This started the period when Johns and Rauschenberg
were very close, seeing each other everyday and critiquing each other's
work.
157 East 69th St
Mark Rothko
157 East 69th St
This converted carraige house was the painter's last
studio. He started to work here in 1964. When he left his family in1969
he moved into this studio.
Rothko lived by himself for a year. On February 25, 1970, he committed
suicide here.
Palazzo
Chupi
Julian Schnabel
Palazzo Chupi—360 West 11th
Street
Artist/filmmaker Julian Schnabel's big pink West
Village tower was
supposed to be the rebirth of the salon—an exclusive enclave of the
most talented and creative minds around. But really, all you have to be
is incredibly wealthy to live here.
51-55 West
10th today
Studio
Building
Frederic Edwin Church
51-55 West 10th
From 1858 to 1956, artists like Winslow Homer,
William Merritt Chase,
Albert Bierstadt, John La Farge and Augustus Saint-Gaudens worked here.
Richard Morris Hunt,
who
designed
the
building,
as
well
as
Carnegie
Hall
and the Statue of
Liberty's base, had his office here.
When Frederic Edwin Church
exhibited his monumental painting Heart
of
the
Andes here in 1859, 12,000 people paid 25 cents apiece to
see it.
The spot is now occupied by Peter Warren House, 1950s apartments.
88 East 10th today
Esteban Vincente
In
his studio on E10th 1950
88 East Tenth St
(between 3rd and 4th Ave)
His studio was top floor front, across the hall from
his friend, Willem de Kooning.
57
East 66th St
33 Union Square—The Decker
Building
Andy
Warhol
and the Factory
242 Lexington Avenue
In the summer of
1953 Warhol
and his mother moved into a
floor-through apartment in a four story building at 242 Lexington
Avenue. According to Warhol biographers David Bourdon and Victor
Bockris, Warhol subleased the apartment from another ex-classmate at
Carnegie Tech., Leonard Kessler.
1342 Lexington Avenue AUGUST 30, 1960:This was his home and studio and the
first Factory
location.
"'The town house bought by shoe ads,' Andy's friend Emile de Antonio
called it, and it was true: everything Andy owned was paid for with a
ceaseless flow of hundred-dollar drawings of shoes, hats, scarves,
perfumes, handbags, and other ladies accessories... In 1960, Andy would
gross $70,000, his best year yet, and when 1342 Lexington had come up
for sale he was easily able to put down $30,000, almost half of the
building's price..." SOURCE: www.warholstars.org
E. 87th Street near
Lexington Ave The first studio outside his home, rented in 1963. Warhol subleased part of an old firehouse near his
home, Hook
& Ladder Co. #13, that the tenant was leasing from the City of New
York.
57 East 66th St. Andy bought this brownstone in 1974 for $310,000. He
lived here until his death in 1987.
Factory locations: 1342 Lexington Avenue
(the first Factory) 231 East 47th-The
Silver Factory-1963-1967 (the building no longer exists) 33 Union Square
1967-1973-The White Factory- (Decker Building) 860 Broadway (near
33 Union Square) 1973-1984 (the building has now
been completely remodeled) 22 East 33rd Street 1984-1987
(the
building
no
longer
exists)
