James Rosenquist First Wave US Pop Artist Dies Aged 83
James Rosenquist, a first wave pioneer of Pop Art has died in New York. He was 83. He began his career as a sign-painter
2 April 2017
James Rosenquist, a first wave pioneer of Pop Art has died in New York. He was 83. He began his career as a sign-painter
2 April 2017
The New York artist and choreographer Trisha Brown who was associated closely with the visual arts scene in downtown New York in the 1960s and 1970s has died age 80.
21 March 2017
The English painter Sir Howard Hodgkin has died in London aged 84. Howard was born 6 August in 1932 in Hammersmith, London.
9 March 2017
Gustav Metzger, (1926–2017) creator of “auto-destructive art,” has died in London aged ninety. Metzger made a number of works
2 March 2017
The artist Jannis Kounellis, who was best known for his association with the Arte Povera movement has died in Rome, aged 80.
17 February 2017
Lord Snowdon the Royal photographer who was married to Princess Margaret, sister of Queen Elizabeth II, from 1960 to 1978
13 January 2017
Greta Zimmer Friedman the woman iconically kissed by a sailor in a defining photograph marking the end of World War Two has died aged 92.
11 September 2016
Rainer Crone a highly respected university academic emeritus of Contemporary Art and History of Film at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich
13 August 2016
Billy Name, photographer and key archivist at Andy Warhol’s Factory has died age 76. His death was announced by his publisher
18 July 2016
The French Kinetic and Neon artist Francois Morellet has died age 90. Morellet’s work is currently on show in London at two west end galleries,
12 May 2016
Marisol, the Venezuelan-American artist who created assemblages combining folk and Pop Art has died in Manhattan. She was 85.
3 May 2016
The Northern Ireland artist Basil Blackshaw has died aged 83. Blackshaw was regarded as one of the most signifiant painters of his period and one of the most important painters from Ireland.
3 May 2016
Richard Smith the English painter and printmaker has died age 84. Smith was born in 1931 and grew up in Letchworth Garden City.
16 April 2016
The Iraqi born British Architect Dame Zaha Hadid, (31 October 1950 – 31 March 2016) whose work included the London Olympic Aquatic Centre, has died of a heart attack
31 March 2016
The architect Claude Parent, a prominent figure of the 1960s & 1970s French avant-garde has died age 93.
1 March 2016
The musician, actor and visual artist David Bowie has died in New York, age 69. He was recently the subject of a comprehensive retrospective
11 January 2016
The French fashion designer, painter and sculptor Andre Courreges, who created a a futuristic, ultra-modern style revolution in the 1960s and 1970s,
9 January 2016
The iconic Post War designer Richard Sapper, has died in Italy aged 83. Sapper (30 May 1932 – 31 December 2015)
7 January 2016
Ellsworth Kelly, one of the last remaining of the 20th-century abstract artists, who helped to shape American painting has died age 92.
28 December 2015
Holly Woodlawn the iconic transgender Warhol superstar has died in in Los Angeles after a battle with cancer. Ms Woodlawn was one of the key inspirations
7 December 2015
The groundbreaking art dealer Leslie Waddington has died age 81, the gallery announced yesterday
2 December 2015
Paul Reed the last living member of the Washington Color School also referred to as post painterly abstractionists has died age 96.
2 October 2015
Art critic John Perreault has died, the acclaimed art critic wrote for Artnews Soho News, and the Village Voice, passed away on 6 September at the age of 78
9 September 2015
Alan Bond the highly charismatic Australian businessman and art collector has died age 77. Bond, honoured as Australian…
8 June 2015
Albert Henry Thomas Irvin OBE, the English Abstract Expressionist painter, was born 21 August 1922.
27 March 2015
Abstract Expressionist painter John Grillo died of heart failure at the grand age of 97 just over a month after a five-decade retrospective
17 December 2014
American landscape photographer Lewis Baltz who helped lead the New Topographics movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s, died… Read More
25 November 2014
Oscar de la Renta legendary fashion designer, has died aged 82. The acclaimed designer has dressed leading ladies of stage and screen and every first lady
21 October 2014
Sculptor Igor Mitoraj, has died at the aged 70, known for his fractured anatomies and immense bandaged heads, exemplified by Testa Addormentata
18 October 2014
The German painter, printmaker and environmental artist Otto Piene has died age 86.From 1948 until 1950 Piene studied at the Blocherschule
18 July 2014
Albert B. Feldstein, the influential editor of MAD magazine, during it’s heyday period from 1956-1984 has died, in Montana, age 89.
1 May 2014