parrots which he called "birdbrains". Reuben stated upon my seeing Lucy do her 'business" on one of Reuben's sculpture "Reclining Man" "Its good for the patina!.".(I have some great pics of Ruben and myself with the birds.) When I recorded with George Burns in my Stamford, Ct. studio, I introduced the two to each other, and the "Tuesday Club" began- Sort of a "secret society", where we would partake in a few drinks of Bombay Gin...Ok, more than a few.. (Ruben commented on the interesting label of Bombay Gin). One day, near his death, I found him lying on the grass in his backyard, facing the sky and then he winked, and told me "The Gods are going to call me soon". Upon Reubens death, I wrote and performed a classical piece written for Ruben called "Tribute" performed at The Stamford Library." His work is in the collections of DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Fogg Art Museum, Honolulu Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Nassau County Museum of Art, Neuberger Museum of Art, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, The Delaware Art Museum, University of Arizona Museum of Art, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Guilford College Art Gallery, Saint Joseph College Art Gallery, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Sheldon Art Gallery, Walker Art Center, National Gallery of Australia, Portland Art Museum, and the Boca Raton Museum of Art. Nakian taught at Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts from 1946 to 1951, and then once a week at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn from 1952 until about 1956. He also taught at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture (est. 1953). Death He died on December 4, 1986, in Stamford, Connecticut. References Books Marika Herskovic, New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists (New York School Press, 2000); . pp. 33, 38, 262-5 External links Transcript of 1981 interview with Nakian Nakian.org from Atelier Nakian, LLC 1897 births 1986 deaths 20th-century American educators Students of Robert Henri American people of Armenian descent American art educators People from Queens, New York Art Students League of New York alumni Artists from New York City 20th-century American sculptors 20th-century American male artists American male sculptors Sculptors from New York (state) Educators from New York City