March 18, 2007
De Kooning’s Bicycle: Artists and Writers in the Hamptons
In the 1950s, the East End of Long Island had become the cultural playground for some of twentieth century America’s most important artists and writers. Here abstract impressionists Jackson Pollock and William De Kooning, cartoonist Saul Steinberg, and others from Frank O'Hara to Jean Stafford, came to live and work. Critic and poet Robert Long has assembled a collection of stories about the distinctive rural setting and the effect it had on the artists' lives and works.
