Listed chronologically,
here are notable figures from the art world who left us in the year 2005.
Regardless of that which each created, curated, donated, sold, bought,
taught or wrote about, all contributed to our common artistic history.
They will be missed.
Artist,
Art Historian, Curator, Art Collector and Patron Deaths in 2005
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January 2005 ------------------
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- 1
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- Paul Michaelis,
90
- German painter and
graphic artist
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Known for Socialist Realism portraiture; taught
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painting at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
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from 1952 to 1980.
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- 2
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- Edo Murtić, 83
- Croatian painter
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Abstract expressionist and academician of the
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Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
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- Frank Kelly
Freas, 82
- American
illustrator
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Eleven-time Hugo Award winning illustrator
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of cover and interior art for science fiction;
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an official NASA mission artist; also known
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for MAD magazine work. Elected a Fellow of the
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International Association of Astronomical Artists
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in 2000.
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- 3
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- Will Eisner,
87
- American comic and
sequential artist
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Legendary in comic and sequential art circles
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for his nearly seventy-years' career, as well
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as discovering and mentoring new talent in the
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field. Best known for "The Spirit," a character
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he both wrote and drew. The "Oscars" of the
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comic book industry, The Will Eisner Comic
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Industry Awards, are so named in his honor.
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- 4
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- Alton Tobey,
90
- American painter
and teacher
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- Guy Davenport,
77
- American painter,
draftsman and writer
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Known for his essays on visual art and his
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1989 authorship of A Balthus Notebook.
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- 9
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- Fritz Aigner, 74
- Austrian painter
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Part of the mid-60s "new Danube" school; drew
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his inspiration from the Baroque masters, mixed
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with Surrealism and Magic Realism.
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- 12
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- Edmund S. Valtman, 90
- Estonian-born
American editorial cartoonist
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Won the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial
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Cartooning.
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- 14
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- Conroy
Maddox, 92
- British painter
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Discovered Surrealism by chance in 1935 and
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became its most enthusiastic (and last
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surviving, original) British supporter. Maddox had
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works seized by Scotland Yard during WWII,
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under the suspicion that his paintings contained
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coded messages to the enemy.
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- 15
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- Fred
Julsing,
62
- Dutch
comic and sequential artist
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Got his start under Marten Toonder working
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on "Tom Poes." Best known for his "Wellington
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Wish," "De Broertjes Samovarof & Co" and
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"Ukkie" series.
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- Dan
Lee,
35
- Canadian
animator
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After animating elsewhere, joined Pixar in 1996
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and became the creator of the title character
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in "Finding Nemo."
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- 17
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- Hildegard Joos, 95
- Austrian
painter
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The "Grand Lady" of Abstract Expressionist
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painting in Austria, Joos was known for her
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Constructivist compositions. She became a
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member of the Viennese Secession in 1954.
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- 19
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- Jesús-Rafael Soto, 81
- Venezuelan painter,
sculptor and kinetic artist
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- 25
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- Philip Johnson, 98
- American architect,
critic and collector
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- Max Velthuijs, 81
- Dutch illustrator
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- Dieter Zehentmayr, 63
- Austrian illustrator
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Humorous caricaturist for the Vienna-based
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daily "Standard" and "Berliner Zeitung."
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- 27
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- Aurélie Nemours, 94
- French painter
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- 31
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- Yutsuko Chusonji, 42
- Japanese
manga artist
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February 2005 -------------------
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- 4
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- Nils Egerbrandt, 78
- Swedish comic
and sequential artist
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Best known for the satirical strip "91:an
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Karlsson." Egerbrandt took this over from
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original creator Rudolf Petersson when the
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latter retired in the 1960s.
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- 7
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- Paul Rebeyrolle, 78
- French painter
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- 9
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- Marthe Wéry, 75
- Belgian painter
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- 10
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- Fritz Scholder, 67
- American painter,
printmaker, photographer and teacher
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- 15
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- Dudu
Geva, 54
- Israeli comic and
sequential artist, illustrator and writer
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- 18
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- Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence,
91
- American painter
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- Harald Szeemann, 71
- Swiss curator
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- 22
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- Zdzisław Beksiński,
75
- Polish painter
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- 28
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- Umberto Manfrin ("Manberto"),
77
- Italian
comic and sequential artist
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March 2005 ---------------------
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- 2
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- Don Celender, 73
- American conceptual
artist
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- 5
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- Vance Gerry, 75
- American animation
artist and writer
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Disney
storyman, layout artist and visual
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development artist since 1955, Gerry worked
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on
classics from "101 Dalmations" to "Home
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on the Range."
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- 13
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- Hal Seeger, 87
- American animation
artist
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- 14
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- Akira Yoshizawa, 94
- Japanese origami
master
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Credited with elevating origami from a craft to
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a fine art, he created over 50,000 models and
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the notation system for their folds. Yoshizawa
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pioneered the "wet" folding system, and was
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named to the Order of the Rising Sun by
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Emperor Hirohito in 1983.
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- 15
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- Judith Scott, 62
- American fiber artist
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Born with Down's syndrome and deaf, Scott
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began attending the Creative Growth Art
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Center in 1987. She began creating cardboard
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cones (and other found objects, including
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sticks) wrapped with yarn that became
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popular in "Outsider Art" circles, commanding
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high prices with collectors.
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- 16
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- Ralph Erskine, 91
- English architect
active in Sweden
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- 20
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- Walter Hopps, 72
- American
curator and gallery founder
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- 22
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- Kenzō Tange, 81
- Japanese architect,
urban planner and writer
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April 2005 -------------------------
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- 5
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- Dale
Messick, 98
- American comic and
sequential artist
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Creator
of "Brenda Starr, Reporter." Messick
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was the first female comic artist in the U.S.
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to be syndicated (after changing her given
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name of "Dalia" to "Dale").
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- Neil
Welliver, 75
- American painter
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- 6
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- Gene
Hazelton, 85
- American animator and
comic and sequential artist
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- 10
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- Carl
Abrahams, 93
- Jamaican
painter
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Got his start as a commercial artist and
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cartoonist but, at the urging of Augustus John,
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began painting full-time after service in WWII.
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Abrahams is remembered as a pillar of 20th-
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century Jamaican art.
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- Chen
Yifei, 59
- Chinese
painter, ceramist and film maker
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- 11
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- André François, 89
- Romanian-born
French illustrator and cartoonist
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- 12
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- Peter
Bramley, 60
- American
underground Comix artist and illustrator
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Illustrated for everyone from "Sesame Street"
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to the New York Times, but best known as the
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first Art Director of National Lampoon magazine
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and creator of "Vinny Shinblind, the Invisible
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Sex Maniac."
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- 13
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- Philip
Pavia, 94
- American
sculptor
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- Libby
Dengrove, 86
- American
draftswoman
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Courtroom sketch artist for NBC News from
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1972 to 1987. You saw her work if you followed
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the "Son of Sam," "Murder at the Met,"
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Jonestown massacre or John Lennon
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deportation hearings - among many others.
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- 14
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- John
Laurent, 83
- American
painter
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- 15
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- John
Hultberg, 83
- American
painter and poet
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- 17
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- James
A. Houston, 83
- Canadian
iluustrator
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- 19
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- Joan
Brassil, 85
- Australian
sculptor, video,
installation and sound artist
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- Clement
Meadmore, 76
- Australian-born
American sculptor
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- 22
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- Sir
Eduardo Paolozzi, 81
- British sculptor,
collagist, printmaker,
film maker and writer
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- 28
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- Emil
"Zeke" Zekley, 90
- American
cartoonist
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May 2005 -------------------------
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- 2
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- Jonathan
Thomas, 59
- Canadian sculptor
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Known for his wood pulp, resin, and steel
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totemic abstractions. Thomas was also the
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partner of playwright Edward Albee for 33 years.
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- 3
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- Robert
Slutzky, 75
- American painter and
architectural theorist
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- 6
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- Joe
Grant, 96
- American animation
artist and writer
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- 10
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- Jim
Love, 77
- American sculptor
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- 15
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- Paul
Cassidy, 94
- American illustrator,
comic and sequential artist
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First "ghost" artist hired by Joe Shuster to help
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with the "Superman" daily strip in the late
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1930s. Initially responsible only for inking and
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detail work, Cassidy created the "S" symbol
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that is now known around the world.
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- 17
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- Piero
Dorazio, 77
- Italian painter
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- 31
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- Eduardo
Teixeira Coelho, 86
- Portuguese-born
European comic and sequential artist
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- William
Lieberman, 82
- American museum
curator and department chairman
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June 2005 --------------------------
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- 21
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- Al
Loving, 69
- American painter and
collagist
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- 28
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- Rowland
Wilson, 74
- American cartoonist
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July 2005 -------------------------
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- 16
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- Pietro
Consagra, 85
- Italian sculptor
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- 18
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- Franz
Weissmann, 93
- Brazilian sculptor
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- 25
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- Jesse
Riechek, 89
- American painter
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- 26
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- Al
Held, 76
- American painter and teacher
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- John
Montias, 76
- American art historian
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- 30
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- Carl
Beam, 62
- Canadian Ojibwa
draftsman, painter, ceramist and installation artist
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August 2005 ------------------------
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- 5
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- Jane
Lawrence Smith, 90
- American actress and
singer
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September 2005 -------------------
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- 10
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- Lea
Nikel, 86
- Ukrainian-born Israeli painter
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- 11
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- Henryk
Tomaszewski, 91
- Polish
graphic artist
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- 27
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- Pol
Bury, 83
- Belgian
sculptor and painter
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- Brett
Kebble, 41
- South
African visual arts patron
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- 27
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- Patrick
Joseph Caulfield, 69
- English
painter and printmaker
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October 2005 ----------------------
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- 19
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- Esther
Parada, 67
- American
mixed and multi-media artist, Professor in the School of Art &
Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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- 20
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- Jean-Michel
Folon, 71
- Belgian
illustrator
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- 26
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- John
Bowes, 77
- American
collector
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November 2005 -------------------
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- 3
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- Reginald
Gammon, 84
- American
painter, printmaker and educator
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Known for his civil rights activism in the 1960s,
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Gammon was a founding member of the
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artist collective
"Spiral"
and joined the Black
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Emergency Cultural Coalition in 1969. His works
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often centered on social injustice.
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- R.
C. Gorman, 74
- American
Navajo painter and sculptor
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Son of the late Navajo Code Talker Carl Gorman,
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R. C. became famous for his depictions of
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Navajo women.
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- Talmadge
Davis, 43
- American
Cherokee painter
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Best known for his paintings of Cherokee history,
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soldiers and hunters, Davis was awarded the
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title Master Artist by the Five Civilized Tribes
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Museum, and the Cherokee Medal of Honor.
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- 7
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- Donald
Watson, 87
- British
painter
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- 10
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- Ann
Wyeth McCoy, 90
- American
painter, pianist and composer
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N. C.'s youngest daughter, Andrew's sister and
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Jamie's aunt, Ms. McCoy was an interior and
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landscape watercolorist in her own right.
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- 11
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- E.
Thomas Casey, 81
- American
architect
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- Patrick
Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, 66
- British
photographer
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- 26
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- Stan
Berenstain, 82
- American
illustrator
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December 2005 -------------------
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- 2
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- Lillian
Browse, 99
- British
art dealer, historian and author
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- 3
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- Atsuko
Tanaka, 73
- Japanese
performance artist, painter and draftswoman
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- 5
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- Charles
O. McElmurry, 84
- American
illustrator and designer
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- 10
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- Sydney
Leff, 104
- American
illustrator
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Decorated sheet music covers for hundreds of
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popular songs during the Golden Age of Tin Pan
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Alley. He was a vocational art school classmate
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of Al Hirschfeld's, and the illustrator Irving Berlin
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asked for when he had a new tune to publish.
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- 13
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- Alan
Shields, 61
- American
three-dimensional collagist
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- 15
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- James
Ingo Freed, 75
- American
architect
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Lead
designer of the United States Holocaust
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Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.
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- 18
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- Boris
Taslitzky, 94
- French
painter
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A figurative painter during Modernism's heyday,
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Taslitzky was faithful to Social Realism through-
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out his career. He was a registered Communist,
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WWII veteran, member of the Resistance, Nazi
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concentration camp survivor and left-wing
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sympathizer, appointed a chevalier of the Légion
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d'Honneur in 1997. He is perhaps best known for
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his101 Drawings Made in Buchenwald, executed
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on scraps of stolen SS paper.
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- Rafael Fornés Collado, 88
- Cuban
comic and sequential artist
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Wrote
"Jose Delores" back in the latter 1930s,
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and "Don Sabino" for the daily Revolution from
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1957 to 1963.
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- 26
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- Julian
"Bud" Blake, 87
- American
comic and sequential artist
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Best known for his comic strip "Tiger," which
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launched in 1965, ran until 2003 and was
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syndicated in nearly 400 newspapers at its
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peak.
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- 31
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- Maurice
Dodd, 83
- British
comic and sequential artist
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Creator of "The Perishers" strip which
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has appeared in The Daily Mirror since 1958.
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So
long, and thanks for all the art.
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