ON THE COVER

Flag with Heart
acrylic on paper, 22.5” x 30”
by Peter Max, 2004

"If I didn’t choose art, I would have become an astronomer," says artist Peter Max, who confesses to having been entranced by the mind-boggling possibilities of a universe containing hundreds of billions of suns, since earliest childhood. Born in Germany and raised in China, Israel and other countries, Max came to America as a teenager, where he found a world of iconography and symbolism that attracted his artist’s eye with equal force. In the sixties, Max’s Cosmic ‘60s style of psychedelic graphic art made him something very rare in the art world—a household name from sea to shining sea.
This month, the artist presents a forty-year retrospective of his career at Angela King Gallery in
New Orleans.