“I met Jennifer Jones when I was twenty-six or twenty-seven I traveled everywhere with her. I spent more time with her than anyone, even Norton … It would take four hours to do her hair and makeup. And it was all for Norton: hair, makeup, beautiful dresses. The point was not to go out and show other people. Everything was for Norton. ‘Norton deserves for me to be beautiful.’ And he was paying. I did her hair and makeup every day, an incredible cost. For the cost of a whole year, you could buy a house in the Valley.
And I did it for more than thirty years, every day, sometimes morning and night. And she didn’t take off her makeup at night. She’d leave it on until I arrived. When she went to bed, she was all made up. Do you know why? This was not for Norton, this was for herself. She said it was ‘in case I get sick at night and have to go to the hospital. Somebody’s going to take a picture of me, and I don’t want to be without makeup.’ She did this every night.”
—Tomoyuki “Yuki” Takei, West of Eden: An American Place by Jean Stein
Isokon Dining Chair, 1936
Coming from the Cemetery
oil on canvas, hand carved frame, 11″ x 14″
Courtesy Chassidic Art Institute
“You don’t know very much about girls. The best ones aren’t as good as you think they are and the bad ones aren’t as bad. Not nearly as bad.”
Hollywood Hills, Topanga Canyon, Riviera and Malibu, Los Angeles, Nov.-Dec. 2016
—Grace Kelly
Judith and her Attendant Going to the Assyrian Camp, 1863
oil on canvas
—Watchtime
—Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone, “Eye of the Beholder” (1960)
Dovima in a suit by Pacific, hat by Lily Dache, Vogue, 1950
Hollywood Hills, Topanga Canyon, Riviera and Malibu, Los Angeles, Nov.-Dec. 2016
Ha’azinu, (Hebrew: Listen) Blue and Gold. Acrylic, gold leaf and shell gold on panel, 16×20.
“#2” Oil on canvas, 1975, 60 x 48 inches
Portrait of The Bostoner Rebbe, Levi Yitzchak HaLevi Horowitz, 1921 – 2009. A few months before Karen and I were married, we visited friends in Boston. They introduced us to the Rebbe who was kind enough to grant us a private audience. At the end of our meeting the Rebbe gave us a b’racha, a blessing.
Bugatti, Petersen Automotive Museum, Los Angeles, Nov. 2016
