Green River Cemetery
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Green River Cemetery is cemetery in the hamlet of Springs, New York in within the Town of East Hampton.
The cemetery which 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 there particularly the Millers, Kings, Bennetts, and Talmages.
However, after Jackson Pollock was buried on a hill there in 1956, it became famous as the artist and writers cemetery. Headstones have become works of art.
There are no rivers -- much less a Green River -- near the cemetery.
Included are:
- Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) - artist
- Stuart Davis (painter) (1892[94?]-1964) - cubist artist
- 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
- John Ferren - (1905-1970) - artist
- Lee Krasner (1908-1984) - artist and wife of Jackson Pollock
- Alfonso A. Ossorio (1916-1990) - artist (half his ashes are here)
- Abraham Rattner (1895-1978) - artist
- Stefan Wolpe (1902-1972) - music composer
- Steven J. Ross (1927-1992) - CEO who engineered the merger of Time-Warner
- Alan Pakula (1928-1998) - film director of To Kill a Mockingbird, Klute and All the President's Men
- Pierre Franey (1921-1996) - food author
- A.J. Liebling (1904-1963) - newspaper columnist
- Jean Stafford (1915-1979) - Pulitzer Prize winning writer
- Stan Vanderbeek (1927-1983) - underground film maker
- Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) - Poet
- Ad Reinhardt ( 1913-1967) - abstract painter
- Fred Coe (1914-1979) - Television producer of The Philco Television Playhouse
- Harold Rosenberg (1906-1978) - art critic
- Dan Christensen (1942-2007) - artist
- Henry Geldzahler (1935-1994) - museum curator, NYC Commissioner of Cultural Affairs
[edit] External links
- East Hampton Star history of cemetery
- Findagrave profil
- Rootsweb profile
- Newsday history of Long Island
- Green River Cemetery is at coordinates Coordinates:
