![]() Yet again, Warhol was offering up gay imagery: pictures of boys “with their tongues in each others’ mouth,” according to Pearlstein.īut despite what Pearlstein described as his own best efforts, the gallery’s “macho oriented” members just could not see their way to showing such work. The day after that show got praised in the New York Times, Warhol spent $300 on one of its pictures and was soon asking Pearlstein to get the Tanager to give him a chance at an exhibition. ![]() In December of 1959, Philip Pearlstein, another former roommate of Warhol’s who had been a much closer college friend, scored a hit with a Tanager show. Sting or no sting, Warhol tried for the Tanager yet a third time, more than half a decade later. 1955) (copyright © the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.) Ortman recalled being shown a picture of “two male full figures embracing.” He told Warhol there was no chance that such stuff could win a show at the Tanager, adding that the gallery was entirely devoted to abstraction - a lie, actually, but a white one that must have been meant to soften the sting of rejection. This time he chose to make a cold call, wandering into the Tanager one winter’s day and presenting his portfolio to George Ortman, the member who was sitting the gallery.
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