About David Ireland

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    The following obituary is from the Los Angeles Times, May 30.2009

    "David Ireland dies at 78; Bay Area conceptual artist
    Ireland was best known for transforming a decrepit 1886 Victorian house in San Francisco's Mission District into a home that was also a work of art."
    By Suzanne Muchnic


    David Ireland, a conceptual artist whose quiet embrace of life-as-art made him a beloved guru in the Bay Area and a highly admired freethinker in international art circles, has died. He was 78.

    Ireland, who had been in failing health over the last few years, died Monday of pneumonia at the Davies Campus of the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, his sister, Judy Ireland, said.

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