Artists Tour

From 1952 to 1959, 88 East 10th Street was the home and studio of Dutch-American painter Willem de Kooning, one of the most significant of the abstract expressionists who redefined the international art world and pulled its center to East 10th Street. De Kooning lived and worked here during some of his most important years as an artist when he and his contemporaries helped create the famed “Tenth Street Galleries” on East 10th Street between Third and Fourth Avenues.

An incredible array of sites in the area are connected to the great artists and art movements of the last century and a half. In the mid-20th century, this area was ground zero for the New York School of artists, who shifted the center of the art world from Paris to New York. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.