In Memoriam

In Memoriam

Remembering Yervant Gianikian, Valerie Brathwaite, and Jerry Moriarty

This week, we honor a giant of 20th-century cinema, a sculptor of the natural world, and a self-described “paintoonist.”

In Memoriam

Remembering Rune Mields, Onai Quiñonez, and Song Burnsoo

This week, we honor a German artist who plumbed the depths of geometry, a Venezuelan painter, and a Korean museum director and printmaker.

In Memoriam

Remembering Frayda Feldman, James Wagner, and Melodee Strong

This week, we honor an Andy Warhol print expert, a tireless art collector, and a beloved Minneapolis muralist.

In Memoriam

Remembering David Hockney, Duane Michals, and Danny Simmons

This week, we honor a painter who made the everyday otherworldly, a poet-photographer, and a champion of Black artists.

In Memoriam

Remembering Willie Valentine, Marjane Satrapi, and John Claridge

This week, we honor a champion of Southeast Asian art, the giant behind “Persepolis,” and a photographer dedicated to London’s East End.

In Memoriam

Remembering Alan Saret, Julio Le Parc, and Hilde Lynn Helphenstein

This week, we honor a postminimalist sculptor, a Pop Art legend, and the satirist behind “Jerry Gogosian.”

In Memoriam

Paula Kamps, Painter of Rare Sensitivity, Dies at 36

This week, we also honor Tess Jaray, luminary of abstraction, and Ben Morea, counterculture icon.

In Memoriam

Remembering F. John Sierra, Valie Export, and Mary Lovelace O’Neal

This week, we honor a champion of Chicano art, an Austrian feminist artist, and a painter and Civil Rights luminary.

In Memoriam

Remembering Bruno Bischofberger, Manuela Hoelterhoff, and Steven Durland

This week, we honor a Swiss collector, a discerning art critic, and a champion of performance art.

In Memoriam

Remembering Georg Baselitz, Nicole Hollander, and Doris Fisher

This week, we honor a German Neo-Expressionist, the creator of the “Sylvia” comic strip, and an arts patron behind SFMOMA.

In Memoriam

Remembering Raghu Rai, Jack Thornell, and Jarvis Rockwell

This week, we honor India’s most celebrated photojournalist, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, and a multi-media artist.

In Memoriam

Remembering Desmond Morris, James Hayward, and Flo Oy Wong

This week, we honor a surrealist and zoologist, a monochrome abstractionist, and a pillar of Oakland’s Chinatown.