Frank O’Hara, 1926–1966 Elaine de Kooning, 1918–1989 Franz Kline, 1910–1962

During the 1950s, when New York City became the center of the art world, the Cedar Tavern in Greenwich Village was the preferred meeting spot for the city’s avant-garde artists, writers, and musi- cians. The artist Elaine de Kooning was at the very h...