Artist Andy Warhol, claimed one of his patrons, banker Richard Weisman, "didn't know the difference between a football and a golf ball." (Really. Warhol frustrated Jack Nicklaus during a photo session by continually calling his golf club a "stick," and in his diary wrote of Tom Seaver that the pitcher "was adorable. Athletes really do have fat in the right places, and they're young in the right places.") Still, Weisman, who appreciated both athletics and art, commissioned the artist in 1977 to c...
Artist Andy Warhol, claimed one of his patrons, banker Richard Weisman, "didn't know the difference between a football and a golf ball." (Really. Warhol frustrated Jack Nicklaus during a photo session by continually calling his golf club a "stick," and in his diary wrote of Tom Seaver that the pitcher "was adorable. Athletes really do have fat in the right places, and they're young in the right places.") Still, Weisman, who appreciated both athletics and art, commissioned the artist in 1977 to c...
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