Green-Wood Cemetery
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Green-Wood Cemetery is a 478-acre cemetery in western Brooklyn, New York City, United States. The cemetery occupies a site with varied topography created by glacial moraines, particularly the Harbor H
The Gothic Revival entrance to the cemetery at 25th Street, designed by Richard M. Upjohn
William Niblo mausoleum
John Matthews monument
Charlotte Canda monument
Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the Neo-expressionism movement.
Green-Wood Cemetery
…and William Wheatley. Designer Louis Comfort Tiffany, painters Asher B. Durand and George Catlin, printmakers Nathaniel Currier and James Ives, artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and architects James Renwick Jr. and Richard Upjohn are among the artists interred there. Businessmen Edward R. Squibb, William Colgate, Frederick…
SAMO Xerox poster (1979)
From 1983 to 1988 Basquiat lived at 57 Great Jones Street in NoHo, where he died. A plaque commemorating his life was placed outside the building in 2016; the block was named "Jean-Michel Basquiat Way" in 2025.
Basquiat's grave at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York
Basquiat's drawing of art critic Rene Ricard, Untitled (Axe/Rene) (1984)