So when David Hockney, one of Britain's most successful painters, dropped in, the management was somewhat taken aback.
Mr. Smith, a painter, dropped out of the generational story early — he is barely mentioned in the catalog and there is none of his work in this Met show — but Mr. Goldstein, who was born in 1945 and died, a suicide, in 2003, is one of its most versatile figures.
To rectify the institutional bleakness of dorm-issued beds, Ms. Adkins wrapped the headboard and footboard in soft painter's drop cloths and sewed on hot-pink ribbon as edging.
Made on a big, white painter's drop cloth with sneaker prints on it, "Eyes and Eggs" affectionately portrays a black short-order cook in a white cap with the name "Joe" on his white shirt holding a frying pan containing a pair of fried eggs whose red yolks rhyme with his goggle eyes.
The moisture barrier can be a simple and inexpensive plastic painter's drop cloth.
Commercial messy-mats are available, but a shower curtain, a painter's drop-cloth, a garbage bag, or chair mat will also work.
Remove drop cloths, painter's tape and other materials.
That the young painter should have dropped the paternal surname was irregular — and also inconsiderate, for at his birth he had been particularly welcome in the family circle as the sole perpetuator in sight of the family name of Ruiz, despite his father's having been one of eleven Ruiz children.
Now is also the time to apply painters tape for trimming, lay drop cloths, etc.
