Art historian and critic Prudence Peiffer has written a riveting biography that captures a time and place- Coenties Slip, NYC during the 1950s and 1060s – that created a defining movement in the art world.

Coenties Slip, an obscure and small street at the tip of Manhattan overlooking the East River, was home to a group of extraordinary, then-struggling artists: Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, James Rosenquist, Delphine Seyrig, Lenore Tawney, and Jack Youngerman. For just over a decade, this cobblestone street of rundown warehouses served as the unlikely site and source of unfettered and influential works of art and created a haven of community and creativity.

Prudence Peiffer is an art historian, writer, and editor, specializing in modern and contemporary art. She is Director of Content at MoMA, New York. She received her PhD from Harvard University. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University, she was a Senior Editor at Artforum magazine from 2012-2017, and Digital Content Director at David Zwirner in 2018.