Editing Steve Martin (section)

==Personal life==
At the beginning of his career in comedy, Martin dated writer and artist [[Eve Babitz]], who suggested he dress in what became his trademark white suit.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Anolik |first=Lili |date=March 2014 |title=All About Eve—and Then Some |url=http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2014/03/eve-babitz-los-angeles-party-scene |access-date=December 10, 2024 |magazine=Vanity Fair |publisher=Condé Nast |quote=There was this great French photographer, Henri Lartigue. He took pictures of Paris in the 20s. All his people wore white. I showed his photographs to Steve. ‘You’ve got to look like this,’ I said.}}</ref> From 1977 to 1980, Martin was in a relationship with [[Bernadette Peters]], with whom he co-starred in ''[[The Jerk]]'' and ''[[Pennies from Heaven (1981 film)|Pennies from Heaven]]''. He also dated [[Karen Carpenter]], [[Mary Tyler Moore]] and [[Anne Heche]], who wrote about their relationship in her memoir.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/387830750/|title=Star tracks|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|date=December 27, 1982}}</ref> On November 20, 1986, Martin married actress [[Victoria Tennant]], with whom he co-starred in ''[[All of Me (1984 film)|All of Me]]'' and ''[[L.A. Story]]''. They divorced in 1994.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Novak |first=Lauren |date=April 12, 2024 |title=Steve Martin Opens Up About the Truth of His Marriage to Anne Stringfield |url=https://www.remindmagazine.com/article/13172/steve-martin-marriage-anne-stringfield-documentary/ |access-date=July 24, 2024 |website=Remind |language=en-US}}</ref>

Martin went on a USO Tour to [[Saudi Arabia]] during [[Gulf War|Operation Desert Storm]] from October 14 to 21, 1990. He met with military service men and women all over the region signing thousands of autographs and posing for pictures.<ref>{{Cite news|last=McCombs|first=Phil|date=November 16, 1990|title=USO's Desert No-Show|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1990/11/16/usos-desert-no-show/ce72e837-4aa1-40ed-9552-684c4137e904/|access-date=April 19, 2021|issn=0190-8286}}</ref> "Everybody coming out here, giving up part of their lives for this effort. I had some time off, and I felt kind of bad just sitting there," Martin said, "so I came."<ref>{{Cite news|date=October 17, 1990 |last=Jehl |first=Douglas |title=He Can't Be 'Wild and Crazy Guy': Saudi Arabia: Steve Martin went to the gulf to put on a show for the troops, but all he was allowed to do was press the flesh and sign autographs |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-10-17-mn-2414-story.html |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210421094628/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-10-17-mn-2414-story.html |archive-date=April 21, 2021 |access-date=January 11, 2023}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

On July 28, 2007, Martin married writer and former ''[[The New Yorker|New Yorker]]'' staff member Anne Stringfield.<ref Name="Usat"/> [[Bob Kerrey]] presided over the ceremony at Martin's Los Angeles home. [[Lorne Michaels]] served as best man.<ref Name="Usat"/> The nuptials came as a surprise to several guests, who had been told they were coming for a party.<ref name="Usat">{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2007-07-29-martin-marriage_N.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080222210339/https://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2007-07-29-martin-marriage_N.htm |archive-date=February 22, 2008 |title=Steve Martin weds girlfriend Anne Stringfield |date=July 29, 2007 |agency=[[Associated Press|AP]] |newspaper=[[USA Today]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In December 2012, Martin became a father when Stringfield gave birth to their daughter.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://todayentertainment.today.com/_news/2013/02/13/16953788-steve-martin-becomes-first-time-dad-at-age-67?lite |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130411234631/http://todayentertainment.today.com/_news/2013/02/13/16953788-steve-martin-becomes-first-time-dad-at-age-67?lite |archive-date=April 11, 2013| title=Steve Martin becomes first-time dad at age 67}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Steve Martin is a dad for the first time at age 67| newspaper=[[National Post]]| date=February 14, 2013| url=https://nationalpost.com/scene/steve-martin-is-a-dad-for-the-first-time-at-age-67| location=Toronto| access-date=September 25, 2019}}</ref>

Martin has been an avid [[art collector]] since 1968, when he bought a print by [[Ed Ruscha]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/24/arts/art-review-in-vegas-steve-martin-tries-a-different-kind-of-show.html |title=In Vegas, Steve Martin Tries a Different Kind of Show |last=Glueck |first=Grace |author-link=Grace Glueck |date=April 24, 2001 |work=The New York Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140418092246/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/24/arts/art-review-in-vegas-steve-martin-tries-a-different-kind-of-show.html |archive-date=April 18, 2014 |access-date=August 6, 2018 |url-status=unfit}}</ref> In 2001, the [[Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art]] presented a five-month exhibit of twenty-eight items from Martin's collection, including works by [[Roy Lichtenstein]], [[Pablo Picasso]], [[David Hockney]], and [[Edward Hopper]].<ref>Snedeker, Lisa (June 10, 2001), [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-jun-10-me-8586-story.html Las Vegas Casinos Gamble on Art as a Crowd Pleaser] ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''.</ref> In 2006, he sold Hopper's ''Hotel Window'' (1955)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Vogel |first1=Carol |title=Edward Hopper Paintings Change at Whitney Show |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/06/arts/design/06voge.html |access-date=January 11, 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=October 6, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130218182223/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/06/arts/design/06voge.html |archive-date=February 18, 2013}}</ref> at [[Sotheby's]] for $26.8&nbsp;million.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Pollock |first1=Lindsay |author1-link=Lindsay Pollock |date=November 29, 2006 |title=Steve Martin Hopper, Wistful Rockwell Break Auction Records |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aRepCiBBQn7Q&refer=muse |access-date=March 27, 2021 |work=[[Bloomberg News]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130102103923/http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aRepCiBBQn7Q&refer=muse |archive-date=January 2, 2013 |url-status=unfit}}</ref> In 2015, working with two other curators, he organized an exhibition at the [[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]] and several other locations called, "The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Harris," featuring the works of Canadian painter and [[Group of Seven (artists)|Group of Seven]] co-founder [[Lawren Harris]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150928014321/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/arts/design/steve-martin-adds-curator-to-his-wild-and-crazy-resume.html Martin adds curator to resume], ''[[The New York Times]]''. Retrieved June 17, 2022</ref>

In July 2004, Martin purchased what he believed to be ''Landschaft mit Pferden'' (''Landscape with Horses''), a 1915 work by [[Heinrich Campendonk]], from a Paris gallery for approximately €700,000. Fifteen months later, he sold the painting at a [[Christie's]] auction to a Swiss businesswoman for €500,000. The painting was later discovered to be a forgery. Police believe the fake Campendonk originated from a collection devised by a German [[art forger|forgery ring]] led by [[Wolfgang Beltracchi]], pieces from which had been sold to French galleries.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,765658,00.html |title=Steve Martin Swindled: German Art Forgery Scandal Reaches Hollywood |magazine=[[Der Spiegel]] |date=May 30, 2011 |access-date=March 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130211220951/http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/steve-martin-swindled-german-art-forgery-scandal-reaches-hollywood-a-765658.html |archive-date=February 11, 2013 |url-status=unfit}}</ref> Martin only discovered the fact that the painting had been fake many years after it had been sold at the auction. Concerning the experience, Martin said that the Beltracchis "were quite clever in that they gave it a long provenance and they faked labels, and it came out of a collection that mingled legitimate pictures with faked pictures."<ref>{{Cite news|last=Child|first=Ben|date=June 1, 2011 |title=Steve Martin victim of German art forgery gang|work=[[The Guardian]]|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2011/jun/01/steve-martin-german-art-forgery|access-date=October 27, 2020 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=January 24, 2020 |title=The Long Game: how Wolfgang Beltracchi conned the art world|url=https://www.art-critique.com/en/2020/01/the-long-game-how-wolfgang-beltracchi-conned-the-art-world/ |access-date=October 27, 2020 |website=Art Critique}}</ref>

Martin was on the [[Los Angeles County Museum of Art]] board of trustees from 1984 to 2004.<ref>{{Cite news| last=Reynolds |first=Christopher |date=June 17, 2005 |title=Crowds Greet Return of the King at LACMA |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-17-me-tut17-story.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215014042/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-17-me-tut17-story.html |archive-date=February 15, 2021 |access-date=June 18, 2022 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |url-status=unfit}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Martin assisted in launching the National Endowment for Indigenous Visual Arts (NEIVA), a fund to support [[Indigenous Australian art|Australian Indigenous artists]] in 2021. Martin has supported Indigenous Australian painting previously. He organized an exhibition in 2019 with [[Gagosian Gallery]] titled "Desert Painters of Australia", which featured art by George Tjungurrayi and [[Emily Kame Kngwarreye]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Solomon| first=Tessa |date=February 11, 2021 |title=Aiming to Grow Market, Steve Martin Helps Launch Fund for Australian Indigenous Artists |url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/steve-martin-australian-indigenous-art-fund-1234583513/ |access-date=February 12, 2021 |website=[[ARTnews]]}}</ref>

Martin has [[tinnitus]]; the condition was first attributed to filming a pistol shooting scene for ''[[Three Amigos]]'' in 1986,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wallechinsky |first1=David |author1-link=David Wallechinsky |last2=Wallace |first2=Amy |author2-link=Amy Wallace |title=The new book of lists: the original compendium of curious information |date=2005 |publisher=Cannongate |location=New York |isbn=978-1841957197}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.utahsbesthearingaids.com/with-the-right-help-you-can-learn-to-manage-tinnitus.htm |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140520201632/http://www.utahsbesthearingaids.com/with-the-right-help-you-can-learn-to-manage-tinnitus.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 20, 2014 |title=How to manage tinnitus |publisher=utahbesthearingaids.com |access-date=September 8, 2022}}</ref> but Martin later clarified that the tinnitus was actually from years of listening to loud music and performing in front of noisy crowds.<ref>{{cite web| url= https://pitchfork.com/features/5-10-15-20/9742-steve-martin/ | title=Steve Martin – Pitchfork |website=Pitchfork |date=October 27, 2015}}</ref>