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Jeanne-Claude , 74 (1935 - 2009)
The Associated Press NEW YORK — Artist Jeanne-Claude, who created the 2005 Central Park installation "The Gates" and other large scale "wrapping" projects around the globe with her husband Christo, has died. She was 74. Jeanne-Claude died Wednesday night at a New York hospital from complications of a brain aneurysm, her family said in an e-mail statement. Mayor Michael Bloomberg...
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Jose Cisneros (2009)
EL PASO, Texas (Associated Press) - Artist Jose Cisneros, known for his vivid depictions of the people and culture of the Southwest, has died in El Paso. A funeral mass was scheduled Wednesday for Cisneros, who died Saturday, said Dolores Bolanos with Martin Funeral Home in El Paso. Cisneros was 99. Cisneros was honored with a 2001 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President George W...
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Thomas Benton Hollyman, 89 (1919 - 2009)
NEW YORK (Associated Press) - Thomas Benton Hollyman, a leading magazine photographer who worked on the classic movie "Lord of the Flies," has died at 89. Hollyman died Saturday in Austin Texas, according to his daughter. Graydon Carter, managing editor of Vanity Fair, included Hollyman in a roundup of "photographic greats." The son of a Presbyterian pastor, he was a staff...
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Irving Kriesberg (2009)
NEW YORK (Associated Press) - American painter Irving Kriesberg has died in New York City. He combined intense abstract colors with human and animal elements. His son, Matthias, tells The New York Times his father died Nov. 11 of complications from Parkinson's disease. He was 90. Kriesberg's works appear in major museums, including New York's Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum...
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Sheldon Dorf (2009)
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Sheldon Dorf, who founded the world famous Comic-Con International comic book convention, has died. He was 76. A longtime friend, Greg Koudoulian, says the Ocean Beach resident died at a San Diego hospital on Tuesday from kidney failure. He had diabetes and had been hospitalized for about a year. Dorf, a freelance artist and comic strip letterer, founded Comic-Con in San...
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Jose Cisneros (2009)
EL PASO, Texas (Associated Press)- Artist Jose Cisneros, known for his vivid depictions of the people and culture of the Southwest, has died in El Paso. A funeral mass was scheduled Wednesday...
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August Coppola, 75 (1934 - 2009)
LOS ANGELES - Nicolas Cage's father, literature professor August Coppola, has died. He was 75. Coppola is the brother of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, and he taught literature and served as...
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Roy DeCarava, 89 (1919 - 2009)
NEW YORK (Associated Press) -Roy DeCarava, a photographer whose black and white images captured Harlem's everyday life and the jazz greats who performed there, has died. He was 89. DeCarava...
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Nancy Spero, 83 (1926 - 2009)
NEW YORK (Associated Press) - Feminist artist Nancy Spero, whose works have been included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, died...
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Irving Penn, 92 (1917 - 2009)
By VERENA DOBNIK, Associated Press Writer NEW YORK -- Irving Penn, whose photographs revealed a taste for stark simplicity whether he was shooting celebrity portraits, fashion, still life or...
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Willy Ronis, 99 (1910 - 2009)
PARIS ( Associated Press) - Willy Ronis, the last of the great French photographers best known for shots of the quirky corners of Paris, has died at age 99. The president of the Eyedea photo...
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Amos Kenan, 82 (1927 - 2009)
By MATTI FRIEDMAN, Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM — Amos Kenan, a member of Israel's founding generation whose writing and art helped define modern Israeli culture, has died in Tel Aviv....
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Charles Gwathmey (1938 - 2009)
Charles Gwathmey, an architect known for his influential modernist home designs and famous clients like director Steven Spielberg, has died. He was 71. Gwathmey died of cancer Monday in...
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Heinz Edelmann, 75 (1934 - 2009)
STUTTGART, Germany Graphic designer Heinz Edelmann, best known for his work as art director of the 1968 Beatles film "Yellow Submarine," has died, his former employer said. He was 75. ...
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Ruben Trejo, 72 (1937 - 2009)
SPOKANE, Wash. - Ruben Trejo, a noted Mexican-American artist who taught at Eastern Washington University, died Sunday. He was 72. Trejo died from myelodysplastic syndrome in a Spokane hospital...
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Otto Heino (1915 - 2009)
OJAI, Calif. - Otto Heino, a master potter who created a prized yellow glaze inspired by a centuries-old lost Chinese formula, has died. He was 94. His friend, George Gemmingen, says Heino died...
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Julius Shulman, 98 (1910 - 2009)
Colleagues say famed architectural photographer Julius Shulman has died at his Los Angeles home. He was 98. Gallery owner and representative Craig Krull says Shulman died Wednesday night and...
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Donald Warner Henderson (2009)
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - Donald Warner Henderson, credited with keeping a globally recognized, slavery-era dancing drama alive, died Sunday. He was 79. Warner died in the...
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Philip Simmons, 97 (1912 - 2009)
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Philip Simmons, a renowned South Carolina blacksmith who created hundreds of ornamental iron gates and fences in more than half a century at the forge, has died. He was 97. ...
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William Hemmerling, 66 (1943 - 2009)
PONCHATOULA, La. - Southern folk artist William Hemmerling, whose artistic creations using simple pieces of discarded wood and metal earned him honors, died Monday after a two-year battle with...
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Patrick Farrow, 66 (1942 - 2009)
By WILSON RING, Associated Press CASTLETON, Vt. – Mia Farrow's brother, a sculptor and local fixture in this college town, killed himself at his art gallery, state police and a spokeswoman...
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Frederick Hammersley, 90 (1919 - 2009)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Abstract painter Frederick Hammersley, one of the Los Angeles "Abstract Classicists," died May 31 in Albuquerque, his sister said. He was 90. The work of Hammersley and...
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Arthur Erickson, 84 (1924 - 2009)
VANCOUVER, British Columbia Arthur Erickson, an architect and urban planner whose modernist structures sought to respond to natural conditions, has died. He was 84. A news...
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Ernie Barnes, 70 (1938 - 2009)
LOS ANGELES —Ernie Barnes, an African American figurative painter and former lineman for the San Diego Chargers and Denver Broncos, has died. He was 70. Barnes died Monday at a hospital of...
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Helen Levitt, 95 (1913 - 2009)
NEW YORK - Helen Levitt, a giant of 20th century photography whose scenes of New York City street life provide a window into a vanished era, has died. She was 95. Levitt died Sunday in her...
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Johnny Donnels (2009)
NEW ORLEANS- Johnny Donnels, who won acclaim for his pictures of the people and places in New Orleans' French Quarter, has died. He was 84. Cheron Brylski, a close friend, said Friday that...
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Pirkle Jones, 95 (1914 - 2009)
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. - Photographer Pirkle Jones, a colleague of Ansel Adams known for his pictures of California's landscapes and people, including a famous Black Panthers series, died March 15. He...
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Ernest Trova (1927 - 2009)
By CHERYL WITTENAUER, Associated Press Writer ST. LOUIS -- Ernest Trova, an acclaimed St. Louis artist best known for his "Falling Man" series of works about man at his most imperfect, has died...
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Sverre Fehn, 84 (1924 - 2009)
Oslo - Norwegian architect Sverre Fehn, whose unique style of blending modern forms with Scandinavian traditions earned him the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize, has died. He was 84. ...
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Ibrahim Hussein, 50 (1958 - 2009)
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Ibrahim Hussein, an award-winning Malaysian artist whose abstract works with a political edge were admired by royalty at home and collectors abroad, died Thursday. He...
