Inscription:

Proof

For Tony

Paula had an exhibition at the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington DC in 2008. This screenprint was included in a portfolio produced by the Museum to raise funds. Other artists included Elizabeth Blackadder and Kiki Smith. She and Lila (her principal female model and assistant) and I were in New York in 2008 for other shows featuring Paula’s work.

From a NY diary I kept: “Lila and I went by train to Washington for Paula’s big show at the National Women’s Museum. Paula had gone to the opening some months earlier. After the show where we enjoyed the pictures and friendly chats with the guards about being models etc, we proceeded to the Phillips collection, a wonderful small museum, second only to the Frick in NY, and after about an hour realised that if we dashed to the station we could get an earlier train to New York and be back in time to have dinner with Paula. We made it.”