About Peter Dean

  • Biography

    Following is the obituary of the artist, submitted by James E. Martin, whose novel, Clementa, has a painting for cover art of Peter Dean's, and who was a long-time friend of the artist and his family. Martin, working with the widow of the artist, wrote the obituary, which was published in The New York Times.

    Peter Dean, Artist, 58

    Peter Dean, an artist whose works have been shown throughout the United States and Europe, died Saturday 13 March 1993 at home in New York. He was 58 years old.

    The cause of his death was Lou Gehrig's disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis).

    Works by Mr. Dean, a figurative expressionist painter, are in the permanent collections of the National Gallery ...

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