Editing Peter Max (section)

==Personal life==
Max married his first wife Elizabeth Ann Nance in 1963 and they divorced in 1976.<ref name="NYTimes" /> Max had a nine-year-long relationship with musician and model [[Rosie Vela]] that ended in 1985.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Pooley |first=Eric |date=Nov 3, 1986 |title=Facing The Music |magazine=New York Magazine}}</ref> He was also romantically connected with [[Tina Louise]].<ref name="NYTimes" /><ref name="Nance">{{cite web |title=PETER MAX first marriage with Elizabeth (Liz) Nance |url=http://www.themaxcollector.com/2016/09/peter-max-first-marriage-with-elizabeth_13.html |website=The Max Collector |access-date=28 May 2019 |language=en}}</ref> Max married [[Mary Max|Mary Balkin]] in 1997;<ref name="NYTimes" /> she died by suicide ([[Inert gas asphyxiation|nitrogen asphyxiation]]) in June 2019.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nypost.com/2019/06/11/mary-max-wife-of-famed-artist-peter-max-kills-herself-in-upper-west-side-apartment/ |title=Mary Max, wife of famed artist Peter Max, kills herself in Upper West Side apartment |first=Ben |last=Feuerherd |website=[[New York Post]] |date=June 11, 2019 |access-date=June 11, 2019}}</ref>

Max is an environmentalist, [[veganism|vegan]] and supporter of [[human rights|human]] and [[animal rights]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Gross|first=Eric|title=Peter Max Receives Preserve Putnam Award|url=http://www.putnamcountycourier.com/news/2009-09-24/Enterpise/Peter_Max_Receives_Preserve_Putnam_Award.html|publisher=Putnam County Courier|access-date=3 January 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141218001023/http://www.putnamcountycourier.com/news/2009-09-24/Enterpise/Peter_Max_Receives_Preserve_Putnam_Award.html|archive-date=18 December 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|last=Allen|first=Jolia|title=One on One With Peter Max|url=http://www.vegetariantimes.com/features/901|magazine=Vegetarian Times|access-date=3 January 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111011052349/http://www.vegetariantimes.com/features/901|archive-date=11 October 2011}}</ref> In 2002, Max contributed to rescue efforts for [[Cincinnati Freedom]], a cow that escaped from an Ohio slaughterhouse. The cow jumped over a six-foot fence while the slaughterhouse workers were on break and eluded capture for eleven days. Max donated $180,000 worth of his art to benefit the local Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, part of a chain of events that finally led to the cow being sent to Farm Sanctuary in [[Watkins Glen, New York]], a permanent home where the cow remained for the rest of her life.<ref>{{cite web |title=Remembering Cincinnati Freedom: The Legendary Cow Who Escaped a Slaughterhouse|url=https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/remembering-cincinnati-freedom-the-legendary-cow-who-escaped-a-slaughterhouse/|publisher=onegreenplanet.org|access-date=2018-06-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180526233731/http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/remembering-cincinnati-freedom-the-legendary-cow-who-escaped-a-slaughterhouse|archive-date=2018-05-26|url-status=live}}</ref>

Max lives in New York City and has two adult children, Adam Cosmo Max and Libra Astro Max. Max has developed advanced dementia, largely the result of Alzheimer's disease.<ref name="NYTimes"/> There is controversy concerning the guardianship Max is presently under.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-peter-max-artist-guardianship-family-alzheimers-20210927-c646qnhj3namfjvj4fgnnc4ndi-story.html |title=Family of ailing artist Peter Max hopes to get him out of guardianship |website=www.nydailynews.com |date=2021-09-27 |access-date=}}</ref>  For some years his daughter has worked to revise the guardianship.<ref>{{cite web |last=Cassady |first=Daniel |title=Federal Judge Dismisses Libra Max's Latest Lawsuit To End Guardianship of Her Father, Pop Artist Peter Max |url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/peter-max-pop-art-guardianship-lawsuit-dismissed-1234660858/ |website=ARTnews.com |access-date=24 November 2023 |date=14 March 2023}}</ref>