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.
There are no riversâ€"much less a Green Riverâ€"near the cemetery.
Notable burials
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James Brooks (painter) (1906â€"1992) - abstract painter Dan Christensen (1942â€"2007) - artist Fred Coe (1914â€"1979) - Television producer of The Philco Television Playhouse Stuart Davis (painter) (1892[94?]â€"1964) - cubist artist Elaine de Kooning (1918â€"1989) - artist and wife of abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning, who is not buried there Jimmy Ernst - (1920â€"1984) - artist and son of Max Ernst Pierre Franey (1921â€"1996) - chef and newspaper columnist John Ferren - (1905â€"1970) - painter Henry Geldzahler (1935â€"1994) - art historian, critic, museum curator and NYC Commissioner of Cultural Affairs Charles Gwathmey- (1938â€"2009) - architect Lee Krasner (1908â€"1984) - artist and wife of Jackson Pollock Ibram Lassaw (1913â€"2003) - abstract sculptor William S. Lieberman (1923â€"2005) - Museum of Modern Art curator A.J. Liebling (1904â€"1963) - newspaper columnist Jan Yoors (1922â€"1977) - artist and writer Hilda Morley (1916â€"1998) - Poet Frank O'Hara (1926â€"1966) - Poet Alfonso A. Ossorio (1916â€"1990) - artist (half his ashes are here) Alan Pakula (1928â€"1998) - film producer of To Kill a Mockingbird, film director of Klute and All the President's Men Jackson Pollock (1912â€"1956) - abstract expressionist painter and husband of Lee Krasner Abraham Rattner (1895â€"1978) - painter Ad Reinhardt (1913â€"1967) - abstract painter Harold Rosenberg (1906â€"1978) - art critic Steven J. Ross (1927â€"1992) - CEO who engineered the merger of Time-Warner Jean Stafford (1915â€"1979) - Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning writer Stan Vanderbeek (1927â€"1983) - underground film maker Hannah Wilke (1940â€"1993) - painter, sculptor and photographer Stefan Wolpe (1902â€"1972) - composer Gary McFarland (1933-1971) - musician, composer,leader,producer Peter Boyle (1935-2006) - Actor References
External links
- East Hampton Star history of cemetery
- Findagrave profile
- Rootsweb profile
- Newsday history of Long Island
