Walter Askin

[7] At Berkeley, he was classmates with visual artist Jay Defeo, who would go on to marry his friend, countercultural sculptor and painter Wally Hedrick.

[8] Askin's work has been described as lighthearted and humorous, with an undercurrent of a serious tone, including content on the "dichotomous relationship between the sexes and the criticism of art itself."

[9] Work by Askin was included in the 1956 group exhibition Recent Drawings U.S.A. at MoMA,[10][3] the Kunstlerhaus Vienna,[1] the Whitney Museum of Art[1] and other venues.

"[11] In 2016, his work was part of the two-person show, Reality Reorganized: Walter Askin and Wayne Kimball’s Mysterious Discursions at the Brigham Young University Museum of Art.

[42] Askin died in November 2021, with his wife describing his passing as "Walter left another party without saying goodbye" to the Pasadena Star-News in January 2022.