Krumsite

Mike Bloomfield

Bob Dylan carrying a drum on Houston and Thompson. (1970) Photo by John Cohen

The show started in 1931 when Jackson Pollack, desperate for funds, took a few of his paintings down several flights of stairs and set them up for sale on a street near Washington Square Park. His friend Willem de Kooning soon joined him. Their enterprise was noted by some luminaries of the art world as Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, founder of the Whitney Museum of Art, and Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Director of the Museum of Modern Art. They organized the art show that would evolve into the Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit, a twice-a-year happening, every Memorial Day Weekend and the weekend that follows, and every Labor Day Weekend and the weekend that follows.

Bookbinder & Van Ronk

Charlie Watts 1952

Jim Steinhardt, Seated Art Dealer, Greenwich Village, NYC, ca.1948.

Lowell & Linda

Blind Owl Wilson

Bobby Whitlock RIP

Ry Cooder & Taj Mahal

Garth Hudson

Robbie Robertson & Dominique Bourgeois backstage together at the Fillmore East, New York City, 1969. Photo: Elliott Landy.

It is the melting pot of genius, folks. A world of long haired men and short haired women. An atmospheric world where people are free. Free living! Free thinking! GREENWICH VILLAGE [1944]

Bob & Suze, Greenwich Village 1963

Bonnie Raitt sitting in with Little Feat.

Photo: Earl Leaf via pastvu.com

Irving Penn Rock Bands Big Brother and the Holding Company (left) and the Grateful Dead, san Francisco 1967