“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