In Memoriam

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.

In Memoriam

Remembering Pearl Fryar, Siri Aurdal, and Frank Stack

This week, we honor a self-taught topiary artist, a mainstay of ’60s Scandinavian art, and author of what may be the first underground comic.

In Memoriam

Remembering Axel Burrough, Kazumasa Nagai, and Éliane Radigue

This week, we honor a pioneering composer, Indigenous muralist, and Upper East Side gallerist.

In Memoriam

Remembering Pedro Friedeberg, Thaddeus Mosley, and Liliana Angulo Cortés

This week, we honor the inventor of the Hand Chair, a beloved Pittsburgh sculptor, and the director of the Museo Nacional de Colombia.

In Memoriam

Remembering Iris Cantor, Ulysses Jenkins, and Rena Bransten

This week, we honor an arts patron, a video artist, and a San Francisco gallerist.

In Memoriam

Remembering Dóra Maurer, Isaiah Zagar, and Peter Stämpfli

This week, we honor a Hungarian avant-garde artist, a Philadelphia mosaicist, a Swiss pop artist, and others.

In Memoriam

Remembering Henrike Naumann, LaMonte McLemore, and Frederick Wiseman

This week, we honor Germany’s representative at the Venice Biennale, a singer and photographer, and a documentarian of the lives of institutions.