“One day, when John and Ann [Geoff Mohammed’s girlfriend] sat near each other in a lecture, she began idly sketching him. Later, in one of the paintings rooms, she developed her sketch into the first full-length portrait she had ever done…John sat for a couple hours with surprising forbearance, though, as she recalls, ‘I had to pretend I wasn’t painting him and he pretended he wasn’t “posing.”’” -Philip Norman