John Suchy American 1946-

TRINITY CHURCH GRAVEYARD

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Home-brewed images: rough first cut Davis Mulfords, New York City 5102.20.12 Wall Street and Broadway, New York City 2 of 11

Artist: John Suchy

Title: Trinity Church Graveyard #7

Date Created: 1976

Medium: Lithograph on parchment paper from original pen and ink drawing using offset lithography

Signature: Hand-signed in pencil lower right

Frame: Glass and dark wood frame ½ inch wide.

Dimensions Framed: 23 1/8 x 17 9/16 in. | 58.7 x 44.6 cm

References: Alexander Hamilton’s tombstone is appropriately at the head of Wall

Street. He established the U.S. financial system and issued the first bonds to repay the states for their costs in the Revolutionary War. Many other historical notables are buried in the Trinity Churchyard. The next seven slides tell the story of Trinity, its graveyard commencing in 1697, and Alexander Hamilton.

Note: Since 1980, John Suchy has used three dimensional medium, making his figurative and architectural drawings of the 1970s rare. Great Barrington Gallery of London on Fifth Avenue represents Suchy and states that his sketches and drawings of the ‘70s infrequently come up for sale. See also an Upper West Side trio of 53 West 74th Street, 135 West 77th Street, and Field Drug. The black church 3

Trinity is located on Broadway at the head of Wall Street. Gaining perspective 4

The first burial in Trinity’s Churchyard was 1697. Its cemetery is non-denominational and is the only remaining active cemetery in Manhattan. Trinity is listed in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

Because of a land grant from Queen Anne in 1705, Trinity owns and operates more than six million square feet of space in 18 commercial buildings, mostly located in the Hudson Square district about a mile north of Trinity. The revenue from Trinity's real-estate holdings pays for the parish’s ministry work and provides for the upkeep of Trinity and St. Paul’s. Trinity Church and its graveyard by day and by night 5

Trinity was established during the British occupation of New York in 1697 and recognized by royal charter. Trinity was the first Anglican Church (which followed the services of the Church of England and included the King or Queen in its prayers) in Manhattan. After the Revolutionary War, Trinity helped form the Episcopal Church of America. The current building is the third on the site and was consecrated in 1846. The Churchyard (graveyard), however, dates to the founding on this site in 1697. The tree overlooking Alexander Hamilton with its seasonal variations 6

The barren tree in winter; photograph taken before 2001 when the World Trade Center still stood.

The flowering tree in spring or summer; John Suchy drawing, Trinity Church Graveyard 1976. Alexander Hamilton’s tomb by day and by night 7

Many historic figures are buried in Trinity Churchyard including John Jacob Astor, William Bradford, George Templeton Strong, John Peter Zenger, Albert Gallatin, Robert Fulton, and Alexander Hamilton, the latter of whom has been bestowed with an extra large tombstone and dedication.

John Suchy, Trinity Church Graveyard 1976 ALEXANDER HAMILTON 1755–1804 8

Alexander Hamilton died at age 47 in a duel with Aaron Burr and was buried in Trinity Churchyard. Despite loosing his life early, he had distinguished himself as: a Continental Army officer and military aide to General George Washington during the American Revolutionary War, the first U. S. Secretary of the Treasury, initiator and primary author of the Federalist Papers and founder of the Bank of New York which exists 200 years later. See the tombstone dedication below. For an 18 minute extract on Alexander Hamilton from Ric Burns’s documentary “New York”, place the following link in your internet browser: https://youtu.be/36U6wZXVBPc Suchy sketches and drawings of NYC in the 1970s 9

The Trinity Church Graveyard images below can be found on John Suchy website. Copy the following link in your internet browser, rather than click on it, to go directly to ‘NYC Sketches and Drawings’, http://www.johnsuchy.com/nyc-sketches-and-drawings.html for an unstoppable ten minute movie, with each drawing surviving only four seconds, before the next one appears. Trinity Church Graveyard is found at 8.59 and 9:03 minutes. Framed and signed 10 COMPARABLES 11

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Suchy’s beautiful and skillful pen and ink drawings of Manhattan and the Upper West Side in the 1970s do not often come up for sale. None can be found on the internet except on Suchy’s website as one of a kind illustration, not for sale.

These drawings hold value for devotees and cognoscenti of our neighborhoods and our architecture with its permanence amid rapid change.

Also see Upper West Side trio: 53 West 74th Street, 135 West 77th Street, and Field Drug.