Collector Richard Merkin, my Dear Friend, Has Died

[ethicsprof]

Barry,
I am deeply moved by your words and am so very sorry for the loss of your most remarkable friend.
My sincerest thoughts and prayers are with you in this moment.

my condolences, my friend


barry

[bh3443]

Barry,
Our prayers are with you and i added your friend to my prayer list as i attend Church almost every day.
So sad to see any of us lose close friends and family.
Take care and best regards,
Bill Hedin and family

[slidekellyslide]

My condolences and thoughts are with you Barry. Richard sounded like he was an interesting fellow.

edited to add: I found some stuff on him in Google and it looks like at least some of his artwork had a baseball theme.

http://www.gallery444.com/merkin_bio_page.htm

[barrysloate]

Thank you to all. In my haste I left out a most important fact of Richard's life: many of his paintings were about baseball. He did some amazing portraits and action shots of some of the game's greats. If someone is able to google "Richard Merkin, Haddad Gallery" there are numerous paintings of his, among them two of George and Harry Wright. Maybe someone can post them or any others here, as they are apropos to our thread about the Boston composite.

Yes, as Dan mentioned above about baseball.

[Matt]

My condolences.

[Jacklitsch]

Very touching tribute. Thank you for sharing and best wishes to his family.

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

I am so sorry to hear of this. It would be very interesting to hear the Beatles story. I have read that each of the people featured of the Sgt. Pepper's cover had an influence on the lives of one or more of the Beatles. How is this the case with Richard?