The night he had his fatal car accident, his passengers were his lover
Ruth Kligman and her friend Edith Metzger. Although Ruth survived, her
friend Edith died along with the painter.
Studied under Thomas Hart Benton at the Arts Students League in New
York.
When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.
I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.
Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.