I just came across the following video on YouTube. It's an excellent quick portrait of his creative life. John Babcock, who is one of the on-camera experts, runs the Babcock Gallery, which purchased most of his estate after his death in 1997. Martica (Tika) Sawin wrote his biography.
He was quite an artist, and an inspiration to me. Good guy. When he won the Prix de Rome in the mid-1950s at the age of 21, he was the youngest artist ever to win that award. Although he followed the usual course for a prizewinning young artist through the early part of his career--a nice academic teaching job, a Madison Avenue gallery--he veered far away from that career arc. In 1983 he orchestrated the Shadow Project in lower Manhattan, stenciling "nuclear shadows" on the streets and sidewalks one night with the help of some fellow artists. He was always stretching himself, creatively.
He never showed me a damned thing about painting, though. He'd just aim me at his record collection. :) Luckily, it was a good record collection; he'd been a serious jazz aficionado through the 50s, so even though we lived in suburban New York, I had some good stuff early.
@Adam I now know why you have been so successful,though you miss you miss your father as I miss mine,I know you are very,very proud of your him and cherish your memories
