Following is The New York Times obituary of Steve Wolfe.
By Margalit Fox, June 11, 2016

Steve Wolfe, an internationally renowned artist whose best-known works are books — or are they? — died last month at his home in San Francisco. He was 60.

Mr. Wolfe died alone, and neither the precise date, circa May 13, nor the precise cause, is known, his family said.

A painter and sculptor, Mr. Wolfe brought a postmodern sensibility to the venerable tradition of trompe l’oeil, in which a work seeks to trick the eye by lending the illusion of three dimensions to a two-dimensional surface.

His preferred subject matter was books, singly and by the boxful, their creased, age-stained, sometimes Scotch-taped covers exud...