Lenny Silverberg and Steve Kowit met in 1960 when they were students at Brooklyn College where Lenny was studying in the Art Department with the painters Ad Reinhardt, Burgoyne Diller and Robert Henry, and Steve was studying linguistic philosophy with John Hospers and Martin Lean. They both contributed to the Brooklyn College Art and Literature Magazine, Landscapes, of which Lenny was Art editor in 1961-62.
