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Longlisted for the National Book Award A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of the New York City Book Award Shortlisted for the Apollo Book of the Year Award Shortlisted for the Plutarch Award for Best Biography Finalist for the 2024 Gotham Book Prize

The never-before-told story of an obscure little street at the lower tip of Manhattan and the remarkable artists who got their start there.

For just over a decade, from 1956 to 1967, a collection of dilapidated former sail-making warehouses clustered at the lower tip of Manhattan became the quiet epicenter of the art world. Coenties Slip, a dead-end street near the water, was home to a circle of wildly talented and varied artists that included Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, James Rosenquist, Delphine Seyrig, Lenore Tawney, and Jack Youngerman. As friends and i

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      Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/08/2023
      ISBN13: 9780063097209, 978-0063097209
      ISBN10: 0063097206
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Longlisted for the National Book Award A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of the New York City Book Award Shortlisted for the Apollo Book of the Year Award Shortlisted for the Plutarch Award for Best Biography Finalist for the 2024 Gotham Book Prize

      The never-before-told story of an obscure little street at the lower tip of Manhattan and the remarkable artists who got their start there.

      For just over a decade, from 1956 to 1967, a collection of dilapidated former sail-making warehouses clustered at the lower tip of Manhattan became the quiet epicenter of the art world. Coenties Slip, a dead-end street near the water, was home to a circle of wildly talented and varied artists that included Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, James Rosenquist, Delphine Seyrig, Lenore Tawney, and Jack Youngerman. As friends and i

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