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Born in Ossining, New York, [1] French received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Amherst College in 1925. Soon after this he met and befriended Paul Cadmus (1904–1999) in New York City, who became his lover. [3] [4] French persuaded Cadmus to give up commercial art for what he deemed, "serious painting".
She died in 1971. [1] [6] [7] [8] Cole actively painted and exhibited up to the age of 103. [3] He died at New York's Chelsea Hotel, where he had lived for 35 years. [9] Cole's work is in the permanent collections of London's National Portrait Gallery and the Brooklyn Museum, [1] and his papers are stored at the Smithsonian Institution. [2]
Since his death at the age of 27 in 1988, Basquiat's work has steadily increased in value. In 2017, Untitled , a 1982 painting depicting a black skull with red and yellow rivulets, sold for a record-breaking $110.5 million, becoming one of the most expensive paintings ever purchased.
British artist [29] Saloua Raouda Choucair: 1916–2017: 100: Lebanese painter and sculptor [30] Huguette Clark: 1906–2011: 104: American heiress, artist, and art collector [31] Edna Clarke Hall: 1879–1979: 100: British artist and poet [32] Alphaeus Philemon Cole: 1876–1988: 112: American painter [33] Horacio Coppola: 1906–2012: 105 ...
Rodale had died of a heart attack at age 72. The episode was never aired. 1972: Les Harvey, lead guitarist of the Glasgow rock band Stone the Crows, died after being electrocuted by his microphone while performing at Swansea's Top Rank Ballroom. [1] Jazz musician Lee Morgan was murdered while performing at Slugs' Saloon in New York.
The following is a list of notable deaths in August 1988. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
After a peripatetic lifestyle, Thek took up permanent residence in New York in 1976 and began teaching at Cooper Union. [14] Amid increasing emotional stress, he struggled to make and sell work, but began to show nationally and internationally again during the 1980s. [15] He died on August 10, 1988, a year after learning he had AIDS. [16]
John McLoughlin (April 8, 1956 – October 24, 1990), better known by the stage name John Sex, was an American cabaret singer and performance artist in New York City from the late 1970s until his death in late 1990.