Philip Pearlstein 1924-2022

A life well lived. The great painter Philip Pearlstein has passed. And I mourn him. I was lucky to have been friendly with him and his wife Dorothy in the early 70's but I lost touch with them, which is my bad and my insecurities. I must have been 22 when I first met them and spent time with them at dinners and gatherings and for my 30th birthday they gave me this antique toy which I still have and I see it every day. It was thrilling of course for me as a very young artist to know him, a gentle smart and very funny man who along with Dorothy livened up any gathering they were at.