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Byline: Nicholas Sinclair My mother, Rosalie Williams, who has died aged 99, was a landscape painter and ecclesiastical embroidery artist based in Sussex, where she lived for much of her [...]

Known for his unyielding seven-day-a-week work schedule, he returned again and again to the same models and London street scenes. Frank Auerbach, one of Britain's pre-eminent postwar painters, who for [...]

Byline: Frank Auerbach FRANK AUERBACH, who has died aged 93, was an artist of remarkable intensity whose use of thick paint gave his work the quality of sculpture. Auerbach was [...]

Byline: Michael McNay Frank Auerbach's paintings, each one wrested from chaos over weeks and months of struggle, place the artist firmly in the English tradition stemming from Constable, who had [...]

Byline: Gary Miles Nov. 12--Jane Rohrer, 96, of Philadelphia, an innovative poet and author, died Saturday, Nov. 2, of heart failure at her home in West Mount Airy. Mrs. Rohrer's [...]

My friend Benedict Rubbra, who has died aged 86, was a portrait painter who later switched to abstract work. Over the years he was commissioned to paint more than 200 [...]

Byline: Telegraph Obituaries Frank Auerbach, who has died aged 93, was an artist of remarkable intensity whose use of thick paint gave his work the quality of sculpture. Auerbach was [...]

LONDON (AP) — Frank Auerbach, who fled Nazi Germany for Britain as a child and became one of the major artists of the 20th century, has died at 93. Auerbach’s [...]

Inspired by Renaissance painters, he explored life's passages -- birth, death, romantic love, redemption and rebirth -- in often moving, often thrilling exhibitions. Bill Viola, an artist who brought a [...]

Byline: KATE TAYLOR, MARTY KLINKENBERG The seminal Denesuline artist Alex Janvier merged swirling abstractions of natural forms with Indigenous iconography to create an art that was both unprecedented and hugely [...]

She painted and sculpted, but she was best known for her oversized still lifes, painted from photographs and crowded with color and detail. Audrey Flack, a pioneer of photorealism who [...]

BEN VAUTIER, who has died aged 88, was a French 'lettrist' and prominent member of what became known as the Fluxus movement, whose proponents believed in the idea that 'everything [...]

Womanly power was a recurring theme of her work, expressed in idiosyncratic sculpture and paintings that did not align with prevailing trends. June Leaf, a painter and sculptor whose exploration [...]

JAMES REEVE, who has died aged 84, was an artist who painted in a hardedged, hyper-realist style and was as proficient in portraiture as he was in landscape. He was [...]

Richard Bawden, who has died aged 88, was an artist whose work crossed the border between ne art and design; he was prolic in a wide variety of media including [...]

Byline: Chris Wormell My father, John Wormell (latterly John Linsey), who has died aged 97, was a painter who worked for many years as a senior lecturer in fine art [...]

Byline: Telegraph Obituaries Ben Vautier, who has died aged 88, was a French 'lettrist' and prominent member of what became known as the Fluxus movement, whose proponents believed in the [...]

Byline: Telegraph Obituaries James Reeve, who has died aged 84, was an artist who painted in a hard-edged, hyper-realist style and was as proficient in portraiture as he was in [...]

Byline: Telegraph Obituaries Richard Bawden, who has died aged 88, was an artist whose work crossed the border between fine art and design; he was prolific in a wide variety [...]

His art, which he described as ''conceptual and literal,'' used a variety of materials, including cotton, wood and even squeegee handles. Joe Zucker, an influential painter who took his obsession [...]

JUNE MENDOZA, who has died aged 99, was an artist who came to specialise in oil portraits of the great and the good; her subjects included the then Prince Charles, [...]

Her palette was entirely personal, making contact with the natural world just long enough to spirit viewers back into her own psychology. Katherine Porter, a painter who carried an intuitive, [...]

He moved American art away from Abstract Expressionism toward cool minimalism. His explorations of color and form were endlessly discussed and constantly on exhibit. Frank Stella, whose laconic pinstripe ''black [...]

M ICK MOON, who has died aged 86, was the youngest of four internationally respected English painters who, born in the 1930s, came to prominence from the 1960s: the elder [...]

Byline: Harrison Smith - - - Correction: A previous version of this obituary incorrectly said that a retrospective of Faith RinggoldÇÖs work was held at the Glenstone museum in 2019. [...]

A champion of Black artists, she explored themes of race, gender, class, family and community through a vast array of media and later the written word. Faith Ringgold, a multimedia [...]

His work, on an increasingly large scale, attempted to highlight, and repair, the impact of human intervention on the landscape. Michael Singer, a sculptor whose work, beginning in beaver bogs [...]

Prague, March 31 (CTK) - The painter Vera Novakova, one of the most original Czech painters of the 20th century, has died at the age of 96, her granddaughter Justina [...]

He depicted the Empire State Building, the Flatiron Building and, most indelibly, the World Trade Center. Those paintings took on new meaning after 9/11. Robert Moskowitz, a painter who used [...]

He depicted the Empire State Building, the Flatiron Building and, most indelibly, the World Trade Center. Those paintings took on new meaning after 9/11. Robert Moskowitz, a painter who used [...]

Byline: Louise Watkiss Lucas My mother, Gill Watkiss, who has died aged 85, was an artist whose paintings took their inspiration from the county of Cornwall, where she lived for [...]

A founder of a transgressive 1960s movement known as Viennese Actionism, he used his body as a canvas and blood and excrement as his materials. Günter Brus, a founder of [...]

Byline: Telegraph Obituaries Mick Moon, who has died aged 86, was the youngest of four associated and internationally respected English painters who, born in the 1930s, came to prominence from [...]

Her work, at the border of representation and abstraction, influenced younger painters. But she did not gain broad public recognition until late in life. Martha Diamond, a painter's painter who [...]

Byline: Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent The renowned artist and playwright John Byrne, whose parallel careers spanned the acclaimed BBC television series Tutti Frutti, the Slab Boys theatre trilogy and an [...]

A prolific illustrator, he was most closely associated with the image that made the ''Jaws'' paperback a runaway best seller, and the blockbuster film it inspired an enduring classic. Roger [...]

Her searing paintings, which could be sweet but also brutal, reflected her interest in the female body and what it could do. Juanita McNeely, an uncompromising painter who used the [...]

Her searing paintings, which could be sweet but also brutal, reflected her interest in the female body and what it could do. Juanita McNeely, an uncompromising painter who used the [...]

Gender and authority were her particular concerns as she developed a varied but recognizable style in multiple mediums, characterized by raw, mordant humor. Ida Applebroog, an acclaimed artist who confronted [...]

Byline: Will Heinrich With monochromatic works and the instincts of an avid self-promoter, he helped introduce his country's art to the world, but not without personal struggle. Park Seo-Bo, a [...]

With monochromatic works and the instincts of an avid self-promoter, he helped introduce his country's art to the world, but not without personal struggle. Park Seo-Bo, a painter whose elegantly [...]