Samuel Adams Green
[2] During his childhood, his parents gave him a love of art and architecture, which led to him enrolling at the Rhode Island School of Design.
However, bored with academic life, Green left after one year and moved to New York City, where he joined the local art scene.
[1] In 1962 aged 22, he was introduced to the avant-garde art dealer Richard Bellamy, owner of the Green Gallery on 57th Street.
Art writer John Gruen later described Green Gallery as "An important stepping-stone for every major American Pop artist".
[2] In an exhibition space that nominally held 300 people, Green invited 6,000,[1] resulting in the mass-mobbing of Warhol and Edie Sedgwick.
[1] Appointed a cultural adviser by the city's mayor John Lindsay,[1] six months later in 1967 Green realized Claes Oldenburg's first outdoor public monument beside the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
[4] To then protest against the proposed redevelopment of Easter Island as a United States Air Force refueling station, Green shut down the 59th Street Bridge and both lanes of Park Avenue to allow installation of a giant Moai head sculpture in the forecourt of Seagram's Plaza.
[1] Through the noted British photographer, Green greatly escalated the breadth and power of his social network, making many new and influential friends.
She pursued him relentlessly, and when she returned to the United States that fall, walked barefoot across Central Park in the snow wearing nothing but a Lynx fur coat to demand entry to his apartment.
The 2007 film Savage Grace, starring Julianne Moore, cast Hugh Dancy as Green, who in one scene is involved in a ménage à trois with Barbara and Antony.
[citation needed] The well connected Baroness Cecile de Rothschild's summer home was located in Saint-Raphaël, Var on the French Riviera.
Rothschild had been concerned for her friend, the by-then retired actress Greta Garbo, and so began vetting Green to be a new companion for her.
[6] Green quickly learned that he and Garbo had little in common apart from a love of walking and of silliness; but they formed an immediate bond which would last fifteen years.
[6] After her death five years later at 11:30AM on Easter Sunday, April 15, 1990, Green learned that around that period, due to her failing physical and mental health, Garbo had also cut many other close friends out of her life.
Green in his last will and testament bequeathed all 100 hours of the tapes, which make up one of the most important records of the last 50 years of Garbo's life, to Wesleyan University.
[2][6] Green, an admirer of New York-resident Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, met her flat mate Yoko Ono in the 1960s on one of his regular visits to their apartment.
For the last 30 years of his life from the early 1980s onwards, Green worked to preserve various ancient art installations around the world, including Bhutanese monasteries and Buddhas carved in the mountainsides of Sri Lanka.
[1] To expand and sustain his work, in 1997 Green established the Landmarks Foundation,[2] by the time of his death one of America's leading organizations for historic preservation.
