The former home of a legendary artist Jasper Johnsnorth of New York, is on the market for a very reasonable price of $600,000.
Johns is said to have entertained titans of the art world, including dancer-choreographer Merce Cunningham, at this two-bedroom, two-bathroom cabin-like abode in the town of Stony Point, 33 miles north of the George Washington Bridge . John Cage was his neighbor, and the photographers Judy Tomkins And Arnold Newman made portraits of him there.
Johns added a second-floor studio with repurposed garage doors that open to the wooded slope outside. Photo: Scott McMenamin. Courtesy of Ellis Sotheby’s International Realty.
Johns paid $48,000 for the 1930s home in 1973 and kept it until 1995, adding a living room and studio, and lived there through the 70s and 80s, according to Ellis Sotheby’s International Realty (including Jacob Matthews and Jody Atkinson are manage the sale). Several of his successful paintings were made during this period, including Flag (1983), sold at Sotheby’s New York for $36 million in 2014, two flags (1973), and Usuyuki (1979–81) – although it is unclear if they were created in the Stony Brook studio.
The interior is 2,100 square feet and the house sits on about an acre of wooded slope overlooking a creek. The property has a two car garage, and for those looking for passive income there is a separate studio. Floor-to-ceiling windows in different rooms take advantage of southern light. Garage-style glass doors from the second-floor studio open out onto a wooded area, giving the effect of a treehouse.
Jasper Johns in his Stony Brook studio and residence in 1974. (Photo: Michael Tighe/Donaldson Collection/Getty Images)
The house is currently listed as a set for photo ops on giggster by host Masha G., who rents it out for $100 an hour and says the old barn where Johns entertained the likes of Robert Rauschenberg and John Cage, is “hygge like all out going out.” According to her, customers have included vogue australia And The Official.
Jasper Johns’ retirement outside of New York. Photo: Scott McMenamin. Courtesy of Ellis Sotheby’s International Realty.
The artist, who turned 93 this month, is the subject of a historic retrospective at two locations in 2021, organized by both the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. . Artnet News review Ben Davis wrote“I find Jasper Johns’ murky introversion plays oddly like a splash of contrasting color against the current hyper-pop moment. That’s how I would argue for him now.
Photo: Scott McMenamin. Courtesy of Ellis Sotheby’s International Realty.
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