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THE WAVERLY MURALS<\/h1>\n

The Waverly Murals were commissioned from Edward Sorel by Graydon Carter<\/a><\/u> for the Waverly Inn<\/a><\/u> on Bank Street<\/a><\/u> in the West Village.<\/p>\n

Carter bought the restaurant in 2006, by which time it was (he writes in his introduction to The Mural at the Waverly Inn<\/em><\/a><\/u>) \u201cdecidedly dusty\u201d. It had opened its doors in 1919 as Ye Waverly Inn and Garden and its modest prices meant it attracted an artsy crowd. Willa Cather<\/a><\/u> lunched there daily and other regulars included choreographer Hanya Holm<\/a><\/u> and psychologist Bruno Bettelheim<\/a><\/u>. Prior to opening as a restaurant, the building had been variously a tavern, a bordello and a tea house, in which guise it attracted poets Edna St Vincent Millay<\/a><\/u> and Robert Frost<\/a><\/u>. \u201cThe Waverly in its day played host to writers, painters, poets, playwrights, actors musicians, bohemians, beatniks, and Bolshies of all ranks and talents,\u201d the then Vanity Fair<\/em><\/a><\/u> editor continued.<\/p>\n

Carter decided to populate his new restaurant with \u201can all-star cotillion of those artistic greats\u201d and he knew that only one artist was right for the job: Edward Sorel. \u201cInarguably the finest caricaturist to ply the magazine trade over the last three or four decades, he\u2019s up there with Covarrubias and Cotton.\u201d<\/p>\n

The two panels featured here are reproduced by kind permission of Edward Sorel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Waverly<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The first features playwright Eugene O\u2019Neill; poet Edna St Vincent Millay and her lover, the critic Edmund \u201cBunny\u201d Wilson; Marcel Duchamp, artist and chess aficionado; and poet and playwright Dylan Thomas, who enjoyed a beer or two for breakfast.<\/p>\n

\"Waverly<\/p>\n

And the second poet Walt Whitman; dancer and choreographer Martha Graham; author and civil rights campaigner James Baldwin; patron of the arts Mabel Dodge and her lover John Reed, foreign correspondent; and Public Theater producer Joe\u00a0Papp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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