The Waiting Room, Grand Central Station ca. 1975

In 1975, the artist returned to New York, city of his birth. He was 25 years old and had come to choose between a career as an artist or a stockbroker. Despite encouragement from a gallery, he followed a false lead from a brokerage firm. The only things which survived those 10 years as a broker are several boxes of slides. Several, including this, became subjects of paintings.