“These are some of my favourite artists, writers and musicians who made New York great—back when a painter would still wear a coat and tie.”
David Coggins is the author of The Optimist: A Case for the Fly Fishing Life. He writes The Contender newsletter, and co-hosts Central Division podcast with Michael Williams. His previous books are Men and Manners and the New York Times bestseller Men and Style. He lives in New York.
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Robert Hughes
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Levon Helm, The Band
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Leonard Bernstein
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Willem de Kooning
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Johnny Cash, 1964
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I. M. Pei
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Duke Ellington
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Jasper Johns, 1966
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Dylan, 1974
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Robert Rauschenberg
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Thelonious Monk
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Gay Talese
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John Cheever
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Miles Davis, 1984
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Skip James
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