Arts

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CARTOONIST - COLLECTOR - CURATOR - DESIGNERILLUSTRATORPATRON

ANIMATOR

Roy Edward Disney, 79

Nephew of Walt Disney who mounted revolts that led to the unseating of two of the company's chief executives and a revival of the studio's legendary animation unit.

Heinz Edelmann, 75

A graphic designer best known for his work as art director of the 1968 Beatles film "Yellow Submarine."

ARTIST

Dina Gottliebova Babbitt, 86

Artist sought the return of her work forced to complete as concentration camp prisoner

Ernie Barnes, 70

Former professional football player who became a successful figurative painter.

Coosje Van Bruggen, 66

Art historian teamed with husband Claes Oldenberg to turn ordinary objects into startling public art.

Robert Colescott, 83

A wildly expressive and fearlessly opinionated painter who skewered racial and sexual stereotypes with hilarious force.

Janice Lowry Gothold, 63

Artist who specialized in creating primitive-looking assemblages from found objects and whose journals received national recognition.

Frederick Hammersley, 90

Painter who rose to fame in 1959 as one of four Los Angeles-based "Abstract Classicists."

Otto Heino, 94

Ojai-based master potter, educator and symbol of the midcentury California studio crafts movement.

Henry Hopkins, 81

Painter and museum director helped develop art scene in L.A.

David Ireland, 78

Conceptual artist and San Francisco Bay Area guru.

Jeanne-Claude, 74

Collaborator with her husband Christo in creating massive environmental works of art.

Tom Kennedy, 48

San Francisco artist whose whimsical wheeled sculptures helped popularize the fringe art-car movement, drowned while body-surfing.

David Levine, 83

Artist whose witty caricatures illustrated the New York Review of Books for more than 40 years.

Susan Peterson, 83

Ceramics artist and educator who revealed the lives of leading Native Americans potters.

Joan Rapoport, 66

Artist and potter who taught classes at San Fernando Valley nonprofit school.

David W. Scott, 92

Artist and art historian who served as founding director of the National Museum of American Art and played key roles at the National Gallery of Art and the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

Nancy Spero, 83

Feminist artist who examined the treatment of women and the horrors of war.

Ernest Trova, 82

Acclaimed St. Louis artist best known for his "Falling Man" series.

Dina Vierny, 89

Muse to French sculptor Aristide Maillol and model for painters Henri Matisse and Pierre Bonnard.

Tom Wilkes, 69

Grammy Award-winning art director and album cover designer whose work included albums for the Rolling Stones, Janis Joplin, Neil Young and others.

Andrew Wyeth, 91

Painter whose durable and realistic scenes of rural Pennsylvania and Maine made him one of America's best loved artists.

Bernard Wynne, 89

Landscape artist known for his realistic paintings of California scenes.

Emile Norman , 91

Self-taugh artist created mosaic window for Masonic temple in San Francisco.

Ruth Duckworth , 90

Modernist sculptor and muralist.

Michael Kabotie , 67

Hopi artist and jeweler.

Alfred Hrdlicka , 81

Controversial Austrian artist

Antonio Pineda , 90

Mexican modernist silversmith.

CARTOONIST

Shel Dorf, 76

Comic-book collector who was the architect behind the pop-culture showcase in San Diego now known as Comic-Con.

Marty Murphy, 76

Cartoonist worked on TV shows and in Playboy magazine.

COLLECTOR

Leonard E.B. Andrews, 83

Collector who caused a sensation in the art world when he bought 240 previously unknown works by the artist Andrew Wyeth.

CURATOR

Judith Hoffberg, 74

Art librarian and curator who was a major influence in the emergence of books as an artist's medium.

James Thorpe, 93

Former director of the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens.

DESIGNER

W.I.B. Crealock, 89

Yacht designer and author.

Lawrence Halprin, 93

Landscape architect who projects included the FDR memorial and Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco.

ILLUSTRATOR

Bernie Fuchs, 76

Illustrator whose influential work for magazines ranging from Cosmopolitan to Sports Illustrated.

Dorothea Holt Redmond, 98

Illustrator and production designer who helped visualize several Alfred Hitchcock films.

PATRON

Robert Gumbiner, 85

Physician and HMO pioneer who built the managed-care giant FHP then used his fortune to found the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach.

Ernest Lieblich, 94

Founder of FoodCraft company and arts patron financed restoration of valuable 1930s-era mural at City of Hope.

Frances Lasker Brody , 93

Founding benefactor of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and a guiding patron of the Huntington Library.

PURVEYOR

Thomas Hoving , 78

Director of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art turned museums from staid institutions into cultural hot spots but had a reputation as a self-promoter