Pop art Kooning appeared and was turned away by Tremaine, who ironically owned a number of de Kooning's works. Rosenquist recalled: "at that moment I thought, something in the art world has definitely changed". Turning away a respected abstract artist proved that, as early as 1962, the pop art movement had begun to dominate art culture in New York. A bit earlier, on the West Coast, Roy Lichtenstein, Jim Dine and Andy Warhol from New York City; Phillip Hefferton and Robert Dowd from Detroit; Edward Ruscha and Joe Goode from Oklahoma City; and Wayne Thiebaud from California were included in the "New
Richard Bernstein (artist) their faces, he gives them larger-than-fiction size. He puts wit into the beauties, fantasy into the rich, depth into the glamorous and adds instant patina to newcomers." On October 18, 2002, Bernstein died of complications of AIDS at his apartment at the Hotel Chelsea, where he had lived since the early 1960s, at the age of 62. He is buried in Mount Ararat Cemetery in Farmingdale, New York. Bernstein was survived by his brother and sister and companion, Toby Rabiner. Richard Bernstein (artist) Richard Frederick Bernstein (October 31, 1939 - October 18, 2002) was an American artist associated with Pop