Artist Philip Pearlstein has died. Ten years before Pop Art began to take hold, Andy Warhol’s friend and onetime roommate painted Superman.
It’s like a “Picture of Dorian Gray” version of H.J. Ward’s 1940 Superman painting.
For more — much more — background on the Ward painting:
https://kleinletters.com/Blog/a-stanley-kaye-superman-painting-mystery-part-1/
https://kleinletters.com/Blog/a-stanley-kaye-superman-painting-mystery-part-2/