Poets and Painters

The precise yet commonplace phrases of Frank O’Hara’s poetry comprised a style so distinctive that one critic referred to it as the “I-do-this and then I-do-that school of poetry.” Along with fellow practitioners John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler, they came to be known as the New York School of Poets. As a group they were in step with the visual arts and counted painters among their closest friends—friendships that reached from New York to the East End, and produced remarkable artistic collaborations.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.