About Richard Artschwager

  • Biography

    Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist:

    "Richard Artschwager, Painter and Sculptor, Dies at 89: by Ken Johnson, February 10, 2013

    Richard Artschwager, a painter and sculptor whose witty, contradictory mixing of artistic genres made him one of the most critically admired artists to emerge in the 1960s, died early Saturday in Albany. He was 89.

    His death, at a hospital, followed a recent stroke, his wife, Ann, said.

    The death also followed by less than a week the closing of a career retrospective of Mr. Artschwager's work at the Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan, his second to be mounted there. He lived in Hudson, N.Y., in Columbia County.

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