Super Pre-Pop

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://archive.nytimes.com/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/the-mystery-of-the-missing-man-of-steel/

https://kleinletters.com/Blog/a-stanley-kaye-superman-painting-mystery-part-1/

https://kleinletters.com/Blog/a-stanley-kaye-superman-painting-mystery-part-2/