Green River Cemetery

Notable burials

• Peter Boyle – actor
• James Brooks – abstract painter
• Dan Christensen – artist
• Fred Coe – television producer of The Philco Television Playhouse
• Stuart Davis – cubist artist
• Elaine de Kooning – artist and wife of abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning, who is not buried there
• Jimmy Ernst – – artist and son of Max Ernst
• Pierre Franey – chef and newspaper columnist
• John Ferren – – abstract artist and painter
• Rae Ferren – – impressionist artist and painter
• Perle Fine - artist
• Henry Geldzahler – – art historian, critic, museum curator and NYC Commissioner of Cultural Affairs
• Charles Gwathmey – – architect
• Lee Krasner – artist and wife of Jackson Pollock
• Ibram Lassaw – abstract sculptor
• William S. Lieberman – Museum of Modern Art curator
• A.J. Liebling – newspaper columnist
• Gary McFarland – musician, composer,leader,producer
• Hilda Morley – poet
• Frank O'Hara – poet
• John Opper – abstract painter
• Alfonso A. Ossorio – artist
• Alan J. Pakula – film producer of To Kill a Mockingbird, film director of Klute and All the President's Men
• Jackson Pollock – abstract expressionist painter and husband of Lee Krasner
• Abraham Rattner – painter
• Ad Reinhardt – abstract painter
• Harold Rosenberg – art critic
• Steven J. Ross – CEO who engineered the merger of Time-Warner
• Jean Stafford – Pulitzer Prize–winning writer
• Stan Vanderbeek – underground film maker
• Hannah Wilke – painter, sculptor and photographer
• Stefan Wolpe – composer
• Jan Yoors – artist and writer