CAA News Today

CAA recognizes the lives and achievements of the following artists, art historians, curators, photographers, architects, and other professionals and important figures in the visual arts.

• H. T. Cadbury-Brown, a British modernist architect, died on July 9, 2009. He was 96
• James Conlon, director of the Visual Media Center at Columbia University, died on July 17, 2009, at the age of 37
• Merce Cunningham, an avant-garde choreographer and dancer, died on July 26, 2009. He was 90
• Michael Dailey, a painter and teacher based in Seattle, died on August 9, 2009, at the age of 71
• Julian Dashper, a New Zealand artist, died on July 30, 2009. He was 49
• Heinz Edelmann, an illustrator and professor who worked on the film Yellow Submarine, died on July 21, 2009, at the age of 75
• Kenneth Garlick, a scholar and keeper of Western art at the Ashmolean Museum, died on July 22, 2009, at age 92
• Charles Gwathmey, an American modernist architect, died on August 3, 2009, at the age of 71
• Earl Haig, a British soldier and painter, died on July 9, 2009. He was 91
• Otto Heino, a Californian potter and educator, died on July 16, 2009, at the age of 94
• Francisco Hidalgo, a Spanish-born French cartoonist and photographer, died on July 25, 2009. He was 80
• Ingeborg Hunzinger, a German sculptor, died on July 19, 2009. She was 94
• Marcey Jacobson, a self-taught photographer who worked in Mexico, died on July 26, 2009, at age 97
• Bill Jay, a photographer, writer, and former editor of Creative Camera, died on May 10, 2009, at age 68
• Amos Kenan, an Israeli writer and artist, died on August 4, 2009, at the age of 82
• Tamara Krikorian, a video artist and public-art curator in Wales, died on July 11, 2009. She was 65
• John Lidzey, an English artist and teacher who was known for his watercolors, died on April 5, 2009, at age 74
• Michael Martin, a New York graffiti artist known as Iz the Wiz, died on June 17, 2009. He was 50
• Cecile McCann, a Californian artist and publisher of Artweek magazine, died on July 2, 2009. She was 91
• Tyeb Mehta, a major painter in postcolonial modern art in India, died on July 1, 2009, at the age of 84
• Leo Mol, a renowned Canadian sculptor, died on July 4, 2009, at the age of 94
• Charles Huntley Nelson, an artist and professor of art at Morehouse College, died on July 30, 2009. He was 39
• Joan O’Mara, a professor of art history at Washington and Lee University, died on May 24, 2009, at the age of 63
• Chris Plowman, a British artist and teacher, died in mid-July 2009. He was 56
• Constantine Raitzky, a former exhibition designer for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, died on June 29, 2009, at age 78
• Julius Shulman, a photographer of modernist architecture, died on July 15, 2009, at the age of 98
• Dash Snow, a New York–based artist, died on July 13, 2009. He was 27

Read all past obituaries in the arts on the CAA website.