Light box construction, 1967, with label from Waddell Gallery, NY. 17 x 22 x 4 in. Exhibited: MOCA, L.A., In Memory of My Feelings: Frank O'Hara and American Art, July - Nov. 1999. Note: Howard Kanovitz was part of a circle of artist friends who hung out together in Greenwich Village at places like the Cedar Tavern in the mid-1960s. Larry Rivers, Frank O'Hara, Alex Katz and Willem de Kooning were regulars alongside Kanovitz and others, drinking and debating on subjects of art, music and literature. Kanovitz was a pioneer of the Photo Realism style which emerged in reaction to Abstract Expressionism. This light box is a three-dimensional representation of Kanovitz' painting The New Yorkers II, from 1965. The scene is Kanovitz's Second Avenue studio, with Morton Feldman, Sam Hunter, Larry Rivers, Frank O'Hara, B.H. Friedman and Alex Katz. Frank O'Hara wrote his poem Second Avenue in this studio, and Larry Rivers painted the cover design for the finished work (see lot 79).,