PAFA honors artist Gilbert Lewis and his model Anthony Rullo
WHYY By Anthony Rullo, who modeled for painter Gilbert Lewis from 1986 to 1996, is the subject of the exhibit, Only Tony, at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts. (Emma Lee/WHYY) Last year, 2020, was supposed to be the year of Gilbert Lewis, a painter who had been steadily working in Philadelphia for a half-century painting portraits, botanicals, and landscapes with little mainstream recognition but a loyal set of admirers in the city’s gay community, of which he was a part. Lewis was also a...
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