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1998:

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   A discussion about "outlaw" comics

   with Richard Merkin and Bob Adelman on Jun 12, 1998

   Duration

   5 min

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Richard Merkin is an American artist.

Merkin holds degrees from Syracuse University and the Rhode Island School of Design. In 1962-63 he received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship in Painting and, in 1975, The Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from The National Institute of Arts and Letters.

Merkin began teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1963 and remained there for nearly 40 years. During this time, he built his reputation in New York. He is represented in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Smithsonian Institution and the Whitney Museum as well as many others. . Mr. Merkin has been a Contributing Editor for “Vanity Fair” since 1986 and a regular contributor of illustrations to “The New Yorker” since 1988, as well as “Harper’s” and “The New York Time’s Sunday Magazine.”

He also has the dubious distinction of appearing on the cover of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album, (back row, right of center).

Source - http://www.piratecny.com/jkent/article.php?article_id=tY1173072021t45eba895b23a0