A Collector's Eye:The Lee Beltzer Collection

A Collector's Eye is anchored by over 135 works from the collection of Lee Beltzer, a Brooklyn College professor and longtime patron of contemporary American Realist painters. The collection is organized by genre: interiors by Philip Geiger, landscapes by Ephraim Rubenstein, still lifes by Amer Kobaslija, urban landscapes by Nicholas Evans-Cato, portraits by Dan McCleary, and works addressing gay life and the AIDS crisis by Anthony Viti. A few works are attributed to his friend and collegue Lois Dodd. Beltzer backed realist painters of institutional stature, in a field that received less commercial attention. The Metropolitan Museum of Art holds...