Some of the twentieth centurys most important artists and writers--from Jackson Pollock to Saul Steinberg; Frank OHara to Jean Stafford--lived and worked on the East End of Long Island years before it assumed an alternate identity as the Hamptons. The home they made there; and its effect on their work; is the subject of these searching; lyrical vignettes by the critic and poet Robert Long.Pollock moved to Springs because he thought he wanted to stop drinking; but he found a connection to nature there that inspired some of the most significant paintings of our time. Others followed him. When Fairfield Porter bought a house in Southampton; the New York School suddenly had a new headquarters; and James Schuyler and Frank OHara found companionship and raw material for their poems on South Main Street and on the three-hour train ride between the city and the East End. Willem de Kooning rode his bike every day between his studio in the East Hampton woods and the bay; where the light informed every brushstroke he put to canvas from the early 1960s on. In De Koonings Bicycle; Long mixes storytelling with history to re-create the lives and events that shaped American art and literature as we know it today; in a landscape where town met country and the modern met Americas rural past.
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