I was blessed to tour the Golden Paints facility with none other than Barbara Golden. Mark and his wife, Barbara are the heirs and current owners of Golden Paints. I am, now, officially a Golden paints/medium devotee. [Subscribe to their newsletter here.] The seed of the company was sown in the 1930s when Sam Golden joined his uncle Leonard Bocour, in a paint company called Bocour Artist Colors. At the time, they produced hand-ground oil colors for artists. Their store in Manhattan became a hangout for artists. Notable art icons such as  Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Helen Frankenthaler, Knox Martin[2] and Jack Levine would get paint there. Their illustrious history is worth exploring, but the…