Fromthe cover of Chanterelle's first menu by Marisol in 1979, to its last by ChuckClose, which was completed after the restaurant was forced to close last July, the cult-favorite SoHo restaurant gathered more than 30 years of artwork by the likes of Cindy Sherman, RobertMapplethorpe, Bill Katz (the collection's curator), Allen Ginsberg, CyTwombly, Mathew Barney, Marcel Marceau, and Kara Walker.

"The idea wasto put art in people's hands, in an unpretentious accessible way, forthe earthiness and pleasure of holding something in your hand" saidChanterelle co-owner and doyenne Karen Waltuck about an exhibition ofthe menus running through Tuesday night at denim repair and antiques boutique Kill Devil Hill, inGreenpoint, Brooklyn.

On the exhibition's unlikely location Waltuck said that when approached byKill Devil Hill's "young, industrious renaissance-type" proprietors about doing the exhibition,she immediately loved the idea. The eclectic neighborhood, Waltuck said, with its ramshackle warehouses and burgeoningart community, recalled SoHo and Chanterelle's early days when she and her co-owner David's artist friends gathered to eat in theirrestaurant.

And while Chanterelle's menus compose an impressive retrospective ofthe past three decades of modern art, Waltuck is quick to point outthat the oeuvre grew organically. "It was our lives. It wasn'tcontrived," she said. "As time passed it all accumulated and grew richer. We weredoing something we were passionate about and so were the artists. Therewas a shared pleasure among us all about what makes life rich andenjoyable."

Click through the photo gallery above for Karen Waltuck's memories of these menus.

"The Menus of Chanterelle" is at Kill Devil Hill, 170Franklin St., Greenpoint, Brooklyn, (347) 534-3088, until 8 p.m. Tuesday. Select menus are also available for purchase at chanterellenyc.com.