Bernie Fuchs, "an artist of magazine illustrations and advertisements, presidential portraits and postage stamps, whose vibrant paintings captured of middle-class life in pre-Vietnam America," died last week at the age of 76. We recently mentioned Fuchs in our "Fathers of Madison Avenue" installment of Footnotes of 'Mad Men.'
Illustrator Murray Tinkelman, who also worked at Cooper's, gave an interview about the first time he saw Fuchs work: "It was gorgeous" he said. He conferred with the other two superstars of Cooper Studios, Joe Bowler and Coby Whitmore. Bowler and Whitmore arrived together to inspect the new painting. Whitmore was "speechless," Bowler said: "I don't know who the hell did this, but the business is never going to be the same."The are a couple of nice appreciations, including samples of his work, here and here.
Is this the capstone to Summer of Death?
my dentist just gave me one his toothbrushes!
at first, i thought it ordinary, but now i see it was a deliberately artful rendering of ordinary so as to point out the irony in ordinarinarishness.
clean teeth. too.