and some of the numerous celebrities that love his unique style of his art include Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, Jay Leno, Justin Timberlake, Madonna, John Travolta, KISS, David Letterman, Celine Dion, The Sinatra Family, Oscar de la Hoya, The Van Gogh Estate, The Picasso Estate,  The Andy Warhol Foundation, Sylvester Stallone, Mayor Carolyn Goodman and Oscar Goodman, Coca Cola, Steve Jobs, Nicholas Cage, NBC (Saturday Night Live) Mohamed Ali, Alec Baldwin and Bruce Willis.

The Rat Pack was a group of actors originally centered on Humphrey Bogart.

In the mid-1960s, it was the name used by the press and the general public to refer to a later variation of the group, after Bogart’s death, featuring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop… who appeared together on stage and in films in the early 1960s.

Sinatra, Martin, and Davis were regarded as the group’s lead members.

Steve Kaufman was an American pop artist, fine artist, sculptor, filmmaker, photographer, and humanitarian. His entry into the world of serious pop art began in his teens when he became an assistant to Andy Warhol at The Factory studio in New York. Steve wasn’t just a painter rather a visionary and showman who did whatever it took to build his empire, even if it meant to go to extreme measures. He died tragically in 2010 at the age of 49 after a fatal heart attack.

Since his death, Steve Kaufman’s artwork has appeared in several television programs, art tourism hotels, and a few international exhibitions including:

• “Writing as an Image, Writing within an Image” (2012) at the Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art in northeastern Slovakia, and located in the hometown of Warhol’s parents. This exhibition featured more than 150 works by Andy Warhol, plus works by Warhol’s colleagues Steve Kaufman, Robert Indiana, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jean-Michael Basquiat.
• “This is POP ART!” (2012) at El Museo de Pasión de Valladolid, España (The Museum of Passion in Valladolid, Spain), which featured works by Steve Kaufman, Keith Haring, Robert Indiana, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol.
• “Pop Art In Trieste: Steve Kaufman, the Former Assistant to Andy Warhol” (2013) at the Palazzo Costanzi in Trieste, Italy, an exhibition in collaboration with the municipality of Trieste and dedicated in its entirety to the late artist Steve Kaufman. More than 13,000 visitors came to see this exhibition, which featured 30 works from notable collections.
• “Pure Pop Art” (2013) at the Marcos Valcárcel Cultural Center in Ourense, Galicia, Spain, an exhibition that featured works by artists Andy Warhol, Steve Kaufman, Roy Lichtenstein, Keith Haring, Robert Rauschenberg, Mel Ramos, Pietro Psaier, and Robert Indiana.
• “Icons of Pop Art, Then and Now” (2013-2014) at the Museo Casa Enzo Ferrari (House of Ferrari Museum) in Modena, Italy, a convergence of vintage sports cars with contemporary art. This exhibition, inspired by artist Steve Kaufman’s 2006 series of Ferrari paintings, features approximately 40 works by Steve Kaufman, Andy Warhol, Roy Litchenstein, Russell Young, Burton Morris, and Romero Britto.
• (2014) The honorary portrait “Mozart State II” painted in 1997 by Steve Alan Kaufman was added to the Permanent Collection at the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum, the official Mozart museum and residence in Salzburg, Austria. Steve Kaufman is the first American artist to achieve this prestigious honor.