This was in yesterday's Sunday NY Times. Lots of quotes about how valuable portraiture is in today's world, and a wonderful piece about the enviable Mr. Childs.
Fans of his Carolyne Roehm portrait will be saddened to learn it was destroyed by fire, but there's a reproduction of it (shown in the article).
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/24/ar...gn/24LELA.html