1. HELLO.
WELCOME TO:
GREENWICH VILLAGE AS INCUBATOR:
THE CREATIVE EDUCATION OF ANGIOLA
CHURCHILL, 1934 - 42
crafted for: Brushes with History Conference, Teachers College 2015
2. GREENWICH VILLAGE AS INCUBATOR
Dr. Lori Kent
PART 1 _
INTRODUCTI
ON
PART 3 _
CHURCHILL’
S
CONTEXT
PART 2 _
CHURCHIL
L’S
EARLY
LIFE
PART 5 _
CONCLUSI
ON
PART 4 _
CHURCHIL
L’S
DIRECTION
&
INFLUENC
E
3. Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a
lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential
content of the artist's work.
- HAROLD ROSENBERG
34. THANK YOU
Lori Kent, EdD
loriakent@hotmail
Angiola Churchill
Untitled (2015)
Ink on paper
Notas do Editor
Downtown 1930s – view from Brooklyn
The culture of primary school
HIGH SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS
YOUNG PEOPLES GALLERY
MET 1930s
Greenwich Village
Washington Square park
The Village Art Gallery, Yours as a Taking Proposition
Portrait of Jessie Tarbox Beals standing in the doorway of the Village Art Gallery.
Two in the morning in 1932
May 5, 2010 Three women in cloche hats and clingy dresses cross a desolate Greenwich Village street in Martin Lewis’ “2 a.m.”
“Spring Night, Greenwich Village”
Martin Lewis created this shadowy etching of an ordinary Village street in 1930. According to Artnet.com:
“At the time Lewis made Spring Night, Greenwich Village he lived at 111 Bedford Street (which may be the street depicted in the print), in the Village, and was immersed in the intellectual and artistic life of the neighborhood.”
Sullivan Midgets 1, Greenwich Village, New York, 1930s.
Ravens peddling poetry on Washington Square South and Thompson Street, 1930s. Mcrudden is second
Before World War I artists in NYC were attracted to cheap, unpretentious little ethnic restaurants in the basements of brownstones that dotted unfashionable side streets. Called table d’hôtes, they harked back to the early days of European restaurants when paying guests sat down with the host family at their dining table. With the meal, which typically consisted of spaghetti, salad, and a small portion of meat or fish, came a complimentary carafe of red wine, not always of the best vintage.
orders To-Day’s Luncheon Special which consists of Tomato Juice, Corned Beef Hash with Poached Egg, Ice Cream, and Coffee, all for 40 cents. Frankly, I don’t see how she can afford to do this every day.
Nick's in Greenwich Village, a popular jazz haunt in the 1940s and 50s. Courtesy Hank O'Neal.
Abstract expressionists
Cedar Bar – Rothko?
Some of the lesser-known members of the Cedar Tavern gang, artists Charlotte Brooks, left, Jack Tworkov, Mercedes Matter, and James Brooks