Jason polan

New York artist Jason Polan has passed away at the age of 37. The cause was colon cancer. From the NY Times obituary: Mr. Polan

Recently, some of the items from the personal collection of the late artist Jason Polan were auctioned off. The NY Times wrote a

Jason Polan chronicled city life in thousands of sketches before he died at 37 in 2020. What happens to his legacy now?

The artist understood pre-pandemic New York in a way few others do.

For nearly 10 years, the illustrator has worked to commemorate the stray moments within the routines of New York’s millions of inhabitants.

Read 34 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. Jason Polan is on a mission to draw every person in New York, from cab drivers to celebriti…

Jason Polan drew everyday scenes of everyday people and changed how some of them saw the world.

In March of 2008, Jason Polan set off into Manhattan armed only with a white notepad and a black Itoya Fine Point .6 pen. He had one goal: to draw every person in New York. It would seem an insurmountable task if not for Polan’s habit of documenting most anything that crosses his path, tagging each conquest with a thick scrawl detailing its circumstance, such as “Plant outside of a medical center on Orange and Magnolia Streets, April 25, 2010, drawn right after I tripped on the sidewalk,” or…