Green River Cemetery

In Springs, NY, US

41°00′41″N 72°08′59″W / 41.011463°N 72.14968°W / 41.011463; -72.14968

Jackson Pollock has a large headstone, while his wife Lee Krasner has the smaller stone at Green River Cemetery

Green River Cemetery is a cemetery in the hamlet of Springs, New York within the Town of East Hampton.

The cemetery was originally intended for the blue collar local families (called Bonackers) of the Springs neighborhood who supported the ocean mansions in East Hampton (village), New York. Families with long histories in the region are interred there, including the Millers, Kings, Bennetts, and Talmages.

However, after Jackson Pollock was buried on a hill there in 1956, it became famous as the artists' and writers' cemetery. Headstones have become works of art.

Despite its name, there are no rivers near the cemetery.

Notable burials

Peter Boyle (1935–2006) – actor
James Brooks (painter) (1906–1992) – abstract painter
Dan Christensen (1942–2007) – artist
Fred Coe (1914–1979) – television producer of The Philco Television Playhouse
Stuart Davis (painter) (1892[94?]–1964) – cubist artist^[1]
Elaine de Kooning (1918–1989) – artist and wife of abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning, who is not buried there
Jimmy Ernst (1920–1984) – artist and son of Max Ernst
Pierre Franey (1921–1996) – chef and newspaper columnist
John Ferren (1905–1970) – abstract artist and painter^[2]
Rae Ferren (1929–2016) – impressionist artist and painter^[3]
Perle Fine (1905–1988) – artist
Henry Geldzahler (1935–1994) – art historian, critic, museum curator and NYC Commissioner of Cultural Affairs^[1]
Charles Gwathmey (1938–2009) – architect
J.B. Handelsman (1922–2007) – cartoonist
Lee Krasner (1908–1984) – artist and wife of Jackson Pollock
Ibram Lassaw (1913–2003) – abstract sculptor
William S. Lieberman (1923–2005) – Museum of Modern Art curator^[4]
A.J. Liebling (1904–1963) – newspaper columnist
Gary McFarland (1933–1971) – musician, composer, leader, music producer
Kyle R. Morris (1818–1979) – artist
Hilda Morley (1916–1998) – poet
Frank O'Hara (1926–1966) – poet
John Opper (1908–1994) – abstract painter
Alfonso A. Ossorio (1916–1990) – artist (half his ashes are here)
Alan J. Pakula (1928–1998) – film producer of To Kill a Mockingbird, film director of Klute and All the President's Men
Jackson Pollock (1912–1956) – abstract expressionist painter and husband of Lee Krasner
Abraham Rattner (1895–1978) – painter
Ad Reinhardt (1913–1967) – abstract painter^[1]
Harold Rosenberg (1906–1978) – art critic
Steven J. Ross (1927–1992) – CEO who engineered the merger of Time-Warner
Jean Stafford (1915–1979) – Pulitzer Prize–winning writer
Ted Stamm (1944–1984) – American minimalist and conceptual artist
William Steinberg (1899-1978) German-American Orchestra conductor
Stan Vanderbeek (1927–1983) – underground film maker^[1]
Hannah Wilke (1940–1993) – painter, sculptor and photographer^[1]
Stefan Wolpe (1902–1972) – composer
Jan Yoors (1922–1977) – artist and writer

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "A Who's Who in Art At Island Cemetery". New York Times. 15 September 1996. Retrieved 2011-04-12.
^ "John Ferren". hollistaggart.com. 2008. Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2011-04-12.
^ Segal, Mark (15 September 2015). "Rae Ferren, Artist Was 87". The East Hampton Star. Archived from the original on July 29, 2017. Retrieved 2017-07-29.
^ "William S. Lieberman Papers". MoMA.org. January 1992. Retrieved 2011-04-12.