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Patrick Angus, The Mysterious Baths. 1984-1985
leslielohman.org/ArtistsPages/Angus.html
“In the last year of life, as he struggled with AIDS with little medical treatment while telling his friends that he was seeing doctors and following their orders, Angus was astonished by a burst of good fortune. In a matter of months, he had three one-person exhibitions (one at the University of California in Santa Barbara and the Leslie-Lohman and Ganymede galleries in New York City) and sold six pieces to painter David Hockney. The New York exhibitions and a book about his work were the result of the tireless diligence of his friend Douglas Turnbaugh in promoting him in his final months. He had not been so afraid of dying, Angus told Turnbaugh, as that his work would end up in a dumpster. On his deathbed at St. Vincent’s hospital, looking at the proof sheets of Strip Show, a soon-to-be-published book of his paintings, he whispered, ‘This is the happiest day of my life.’”
