
Billy
Jack Robertson
June
1 1972
Age
37, San Antonio

Partner: Erwin
Thaman
The Houston bar The
Exile closed in 1986 and by that time the painting of "Mr Exile"
had hung in the club for at least twenty years. Robertson was the
model for that painting,
artist now unknown. Fortunately it found its way to GCAM in Houston
(the Gulf Coast
Archives & Museum), and below you can see it used in an Exile
ad from 1970 and in a recent
photo. The painting is also mentioned in the obituary of his partner,
Erwin Thaman.



He died of cirrhosis of the liver


Exile
History
