{"id":2756,"date":"2010-06-14T16:16:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T16:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/?p=2756"},"modified":"2021-06-17T10:39:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T10:39:35","slug":"the-waverly-murals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/the-waverly-murals\/","title":{"rendered":"THE WAVERLY MURALS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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 <\/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 <\/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":" THE WAVERLY MURALS The Waverly Murals were commissioned from Edward Sorel by Graydon Carter for the Waverly Inn on Bank Street in the West Village. Carter bought the restaurant in … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n