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| “Extraordinary technique, engaging wit…Lasker’s riffs on art history, life, and convention are delivered with refreshing charm, irony, and skill.”
— Mary Schneider Enriquez, Art News, January, 2004
“Pictures that veil social commentary within a romantic realism.”
— Art News, December, 1951
“One of the more talented representational painters active in New York today… a great sympathy for people and a leaning towards depicting themes that awaken one’s social conscience.”
— Marvin Schwartz, Apollo, April, 1959
“Like the Intimists, he celebrates the joy of tranquil moments snatched from the maelstrom of life…. Lasker captures a dreamy, reflective ambiance; his figures seem caught in their own private reveries.
— Art Now Gallery Guide, September, 2000
“Joe Lasker commands our interest…(Remember painting? Like, you know, oil or acrylic on canvas?)
— Hilton Kramer, New York Observer, April, 2003
“The painter laureate of New York”
— Janet Flanner, New Yorker, European correspondent, as told to painter Seymour Drumlevitch at the American Academy in Rome, October, 1950
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