2. From 1957 to 1966 Safran was a member of the influential group of Time
magazine cover artists known internally as "the stable", which included Boris
Artzybasheff, Boris Chaliapin, and Robert Vickrey.
During this period he painted over seventy-three cover portraits of leading
celebrities and newsmakers. Thirty-six of the original paintings are now in the
collection of the Smithsonian Institution's The National Portrait Gallery in
Washington, D.C. Many of the remaining cover portraits were presented to the
famous individuals depicted.
Bernard Safran was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1924 to immigrant parents.