TRIBAL people 138 FIG. 8 (above): Rosemary Lewandowski-Lois, Merchant of the Gods, 1970. Oil on canvas, 72” x 60”. FIG. 9 (right): The Loises with Nike by Augustus Saint-Gaudens (gilt bronze, 1905). Behind is a Calder mobile and a Frank Lloyd Wright “Wisteria” window from Martin House. primitive, ancient, and medieval art in America, a tyrannical but saintly guardian of the world’s great treasures. In 1960, dressed in beat-up gym gear, I would wander up Madison Avenue after playing basketball at the “Y” every Saturday morning in lower Manhattan to gaze through the window and drool at the newly acquired Klejman masterpieces. Frustratingly, I was always denied access at the always locked door by his authoritarian daughter who, along with her parents peering out from the rear of the store, judged my appearance to be that of a bum. So one Saturday, I asked Rosemary, my Polish- American wife and an accomplished painter, to doll up and stand (in front of me) at the door. One look at my elegant, stylish, statuesque blonde beauty and we gained immediate access as Mr. Klejman bowed and clicked his heels. We were grandly allowed entrance
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