On the occasion of the Whitney Museum’s retrospective exhibition Carmen Herrera: Lines of Sight, artist Tony Bechara, a close friend of Herrera’s for forty years, will tell the story of her life and art. One hundred and one years old and still painting today, Cuban-American artist Carmen Herrera, studied at the Art Students League from 1943 to1947. Following World War II, Herrera moved to Paris where she was influenced by a group of abstract artists, Salon des Réalités Nouvelles. Returning to New York in the mid 1950s, she developed a hard-edged minimalist style. Although she exhibited her paintings in the decades to follow, Herrera did not sell her first painting until 2004.