ROBERT P. WEISS
In the news:
A Brother’s Art, Lost and Found
By JAKE MOONEY New York Times DEC. 18, 2008
KENNETH WEISS was a freshman at Thomas A. Edison High School in Jamaica, Queens, when a teacher in a commercial art class introduced him to painting. He flung himself into it, into the work of art and into the romance. His brother, Robert, five years younger, watched in awe.
It was the late 1950s, and the Weiss brothers, sons of a Teamster father with a sixth-grade education and a crossing-guard mother, were growing up just over the Brooklyn side of the Bushwick/Ridgewood border. They were restless — especially Kenneth, who moved to Greenwich Village to study art as soon as he graduated.
Robert, as usual, tried to keep up. “At 13,” he recalled last week, “I can remember him trying to sneak me into the old Cedar Tavern so I could see where Jackson Pollock hit this guy. We were like that. We weren’t trading baseball cards.”
True Grit:Park Slope Artist Robert Weiss Talks Turkey About His Craft,Gentrification, and the Sweet Science
by CATHERINE GIGANTE-BROWN Industry Magazine March/April 2013
