Bryant Park Studios
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The Bryant Park Studios is an office building at 80 West 40th Street in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, New York, United States. The building, at the corner of 40th Street and Six
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Main entrance
Midsection detail on 40th Street. The center bay has two windows on each story. Immediately flanking the center bay are the second-outermost bays. The outermost bays are visible at far left and right.
The Sixth Avenue elevation has mezzanines for the duplexes. Pictured from bottom to top are the sixth story, sixth mezzanine, seventh story, and eighth story.
J. C. Leyendecker
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Joseph Christian Leyendecker was one of the most prominent and financially successful freelance commercial artists in the United States. He was active between 1895 and 1951 producing drawings and pain
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…use. Schwartz controlled the Beaux-Arts Building and Studio Corporation, which significantly increased the rents for several artists. This led tenant J. C. Leyendecker to sue the company in November 1920 on behalf of the building's thirty-six tenants. A municipal judge found that the company could not pass on the cost…
Leyendecker in 1895
Leyendecker-illustrated ad for Arrow collars and shirts (c. 1930)
Leyendecker in his studio
Leyendecker home on Mount Tom Road, (48), in New Rochelle, New York, which still exists as Mount Tom Day Camp.