A Month of Sundays: 4 Days in New York
Years ago, I had a commission for a painting. The man who commissioned the painting, lived in New Jersey. He wanted a large painting, to include his four children, three sons and one daughter. Large paintings are expensive to ship, and as I had a friend in New Jersey, I decided to fly out, buy the canvas and supplies there, and paint. Shipping me to New Jersey via United Airlines, was far less costly than shipping a three foot by four foot canvas via UPS, go figure. I planned to take each and every Sunday off, and head into the city of New York, to explore-to find inspiration-and to eat some very fine Italian food.
I had been wanting to go to the neighborhood of Little Italy for as long as I could remember. I went online and found a different hotel for each of my Sunday night visits at http://www.4starhotelsnewyork.com. One night in Soho, one night in the East Village (of course), one night close to Central Park, and one night in the borough of Brooklyn. I wanted to feel like a bohemian, I wanted to feel what it was like to simply follow one’s own nature, one’s soul calling if you will. I had remained in one place for far too long, finding inspiration from books and documentary television shows.
In those four Sundays, I found what was necessary for me to finish the commission, and found so much more. It was the beginning of my own personal tradition of a Month of Sundays. The art galleries of Chelsea and Soho, the street musicians and artists of the East Village and the character of the people in Brooklyn brought me back to Manhattan for many years to follow. Next month I celebrate my 74th birthday, and a few days after that I will return once again to the city of New York, for my first one woman show.
This trip will not however be simply a month of Sundays. It will be a full month. And yes I will wear fashionable square, black rimmed glasses, but I will leave the classic black beret hat and turtleneck shirt to those waiting for their first show. They need those accessories after-all, to prove perhaps that they do have artistic and bohemian blood running through their veins, but for me…that kind of thing is no longer necessary, as I do, finally have a one woman show on the island of Manhattan.
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