Aubrey Mayer Reveals His Unpublished Images of the East End’s Biggest Artists

Aubrey Mayer met Elizabeth Peyton at 19 years old in Orient, New York. He traded sailing lessons off the North Fork in exchange for a portrait sitting. Peyton then introduced Mayer to White Columns curator Matthew Higgs and the rest is history. Mayer became the de facto town historian for artists that made their way to the Long Island Sound each summer.

Agathe Snow.

T.J. Wilcox.

The inimitable Rashid Johnson.

Painter Joel Mesler.

Laura Owens.

Jacqueline Humphries.

Artist Rob Pruitt in his Greenport studio with a sculpture.

Rob Pruitt’s romantic partner and sometimes collaborator, Jonathan Horowitz, stares into camera.

A beachside swingset.

Photographer Richard Kern and painter Ryan Sullivan sail with a friend.