Stan kept returning to the Brooklyn subway as subject across six decades — from early sketches in the 1930s to prints made as late as 2003. Music by composer Lou Harrison.

Stan's 1960 commission for a series of football murals at Manuche's Restaurant didn't end there. The research fueled a body of prints that kept evolving over the years. Music by David Karagianis, with game broadcast audio.

From sketches to prints, to reimagined variations. Sketches from growing up in Brooklyn apartments in the 1930s evolved into woodcut prints that were revisited over the years.

Music: The Bad Plus
Artist: Stan Kaplan

Watching Zasis perform was inseparable from drawing them. Rob Kaplan, Thomas Chapin, Bill Sloat, and Thad Wheeler entered every performance with nothing pre-planned — and Stan's sketchbook was always open. This video traces how those live observations became prints and ultimately an artist's book.

This section is still taking shape — part of the living archive. Stan sketched throughout his life, from high school in the early 1940s well into his eighties. Organized chronologically, these sketches show how ideas found their way into prints, and how designs kept returning years later in new forms.

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