Tag: drawing

  • August 26, 2015 at 02:56PM

    Lunchtime drawing: James Baldwin, “whose passionate, intensely personal essays in the 1950’s and 60’s on racial discrimination in America made him an eloquent voice of the civil-rights movement”, lived at 81 Horatio Street from 1958 to 1963. (Quote from NYTimes). Literary Greenwich Village 3/5 from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/1Vb3LOF via IFTTT

  • August 24, 2015 at 03:34PM

    lunchtime #drawing: for the last forty years of his life, poet e.e. cummings walked through this door to his home at number 4 patchin place, right around the corner from the jefferson market library. kicking off a literary series in greenwich village 1/5. #NicksLunchboxService #eecummings #GreenwichVillage #architecture #Literature #poet #architecture #LiteraryGreenwichVillage #lowercase (at Greenwich Village)…

  • August 23, 2015 at 07:01PM

    Milestone #drawing: This is my 600th consecutive daily drawing for ‘Nick’s Lunchbox Service’ – and a view of lower Manhattan from the 19th floor of the Standard Hotel, with the High Line and Whitney Museum down below. Thanks for keeping up with this project! #NicksLunchboxService #LowerManhattan #skyline #StandardHotel #NYC #HighLine #WhitneyMuseum #WaterTowers #illustration #sketchbook #art…

  • August 22, 2015 at 02:11PM

    Lunchtime #drawing: No. 4 Gramercy Park West, the stoop Dylan sat on to be photographed for the Highway 61 Revisited album cover, and a Greek Revival mansion that once housed mayor James Harper and received its lanterns out front. Dylan 7/7 This wraps up a week of drawing Bob Dylan related locations in New York…

  • August 21, 2015 at 02:46PM

    Lunchtime #drawing: The White Horse Tavern on Hudson Street, where Bob Dylan would listen to the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem play Irish rebel songs. Dylan 6/7 #NicksLunchboxService #BobDylan #WhiteHorseTavern #GreenwichVillage #WestVillage #DylanThomas #ClancyBrothers #architecture (at White Horse Tavern) from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/1UXZw9g via IFTTT

  • August 20, 2015 at 05:19PM

    Lunchtime #drawing: Got to hurry on back to Hotel Earle, a flophouse gone boutique hotel, where Bob Dylan first stayed in NYC in 1961 (now the Washington Square Hotel.) Dylan 5/7 #NicksLunchboxService #HotelEarle #BobDylan #Dylan #WashingtonSquareHotel #GreenwichVillage #awning #art #hotel (at Washington Square Park) from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/1TWyW2Z via IFTTT

  • August 19, 2015 at 02:46PM

    Lunchtime drawing: After living in Woodstock for a few years, Bob Dylan bought this townhouse at 92-94 MacDougal Street and lived there from 1966-67, but New York City (and fame) had changed in the meantime. Dylan 4/7 I’m excited for Sunday, August 23rd – which will be the 600th consecutive artwork in this drawing-a-day project.…

  • August 18, 2015 at 02:38PM

    Lunchtime drawing: Another side of Washington Square Park, emblematic of the folk music revival in the 1950s and 60s, and where Bob Dylan both performed and listened to other musicians. from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/1PkraJL via IFTTT

  • August 17, 2015 at 02:27PM

    Lunchtime drawing: Positively 161 West 4th Street, where Bob Dylan had an apartment – his first permanent address – in New York City. I’ll be tracing Dylan through Greenwich Village this week with a drawing each day. from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/1E10vkt via IFTTT

  • August 16, 2015 at 02:31PM

    Lunchtime #drawing: The Freewheelin’ Jones Street in Greenwich Village. #NicksLunchboxService #JonesStreet #West4thStreet #GreenwichVillage #Freewheelin’ #architecture #AlbumCover #art (at Greenwich Village) from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/1LfFF3n via IFTTT