John Golding - Artist Info

About John Golding

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    Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist

    John Golding Dies at 82; Zeroed In on Abstraction
    By MARGALIT FOX
    Published: April 18, 2012

    John Golding, an English art critic, scholar and painter who courted abstraction in every facet of his career — seeking to define it in the work of others and to produce it in his own — died on April 9. He was 82.

    The death was announced on the Web site of the Courtauld Institute of Art. Mr. Golding was a former faculty member of the institute, which is part of the University of London. The cause and place of death were not made known.

    Considered one of the foremost British art historians of his generation, Mr. Golding was known on both sides of the Atlant...

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