One of the founding board members of the MCA was Lew Manilow. You know? And Madeline brought Lew Manilow by my studio back in the nineties—was the first time I met him, and the first time I met him was with her.

And at the time, I was working on that series of paintings of the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts. And Lew was excited about those paintings when he saw them. And I know that when he bought those paintings and made a promised gift to the MCA of those works. And I know that they have finally made their way into the MCA’s collection, and Lew Manilow has been probably one of my biggest supporters from the time I first came to Chicago, and it was through Madeline that I met Lew.