Max and the Malton to meet

Peter Max paints a portrait of Willie Nelson by Peter Max appears on the October 2010 cover of Austin Lifestyle Magazine.

     (NWPR-OH) – He and his works will come to the Malton Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio with previews beginning on Saturday, November 13. In addition, two receptions are set for Saturday, November 20 and Sunday 21st.  For more information and to be included, call 513.321.8614. 

     Among his acclaims, he has painted six U.S. Presidents and his art is on view in Presidential Libraries and U.S. Embassies; Since America’s Bicentennial, he has painted Lady Liberty and a collage of these works grace 145 million Verizon (Frontier) phone books; He has been named an official artist of the 2006 U.S. Olympic Team at the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy; He has been  the Official Artist of 5 Super Bowls, World Cup USA, the World Series, the U.S. Open, the Indy 500, the NYC Marathon, the Kentucky Derby, and  his bold colors, uplifting images and uncommon artistic diversity have touched almost every phase of American culture and has inspired many generations, including his best selling art book: “The Art of Peter Max.”

     Born Peter Max Finkelstein on October 19, 1937, who became and who is a pop culture icon as well as a household name not only for his “Cosmic 60s” art, style and many more achievements, but probably not as publicly reported, is he an environmentalist and defender of human and animal rights.

     Several years ago, Max offered to provide a full life for a cow that escaped from an Ohio slaughterhouse. Cinci Freedom leaped over a six-foot fence while the workers were on break and was on the run for eleven days before captured. “This little girl’s will, facing the end of her life, being so frightened, then taking the risk of all risks to live, to be free; touched me so deeply,” said Peter. To guarantee ‘Cinci’ a long peaceful life at the Farm Sanctuary in Watkins, New York, he donated $180,000 worth of his art to benefit the local Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. “It was so inspiring. I knew I had to try to preserve that wonderful spirit.”

     For more information on the Malton Gallery see www.maltongallery.com, and Peter Max see www.petermax.com.