Block 5 of Story of E.A.T. Part I (Q24639)

When Pontus first came to New York in 1959, I had a car and took him around to visit artists. Pontus knew Sam Francis from Paris and we soon met his neighbor on 23rd Street, the painter Alfred Leslie, who had just made the film Pull My Daisy with Robert Frank. Leslie’s enthusiasm helped spark Pontus’ interest in contemporary American art as did Dorothy Miller’s exhibition Sixteen Americans...