Copley Square. If there's another American square, or even street, named after a painter, I'm not aware of it. We are even more indifferent towards our artists than our writers. By contrast, streets and squares in Europe are routinely named after painters and writers, even foreign ones.
Even very educated Americans would have a very hard time naming a single living American visual artist.
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Jack London Square in Oakland is another example
oops, you did specify painter. In my head I converted it to 'artist' , never mind.
Hi Anonymous,
Jack London Square is also unusual. In Philly, there's the Walt Whitman Bridge, but nothing honoring Ezra Pound. There is no Hilda Doolitle Street in Bethlehem. In Paris, there are hundreds of streets named after writers and artists, many of them foreign. The American artist Jean Michel Basquiat has a Parisian square named after him.
Linh
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