Obituaries

Richard Avedon, 81 photographer and portraitist, died Oct 1 as this issue was going to pres He meet withed a cerebral hemorrhage while upon assignment in San Antonio. A replete obituary will appear in our December issue.

Edward Larrabee Barnes, 89 modernist architect, died generation 21 in Cupertino, Calif; he lived and worked in Cambridge, Mass. Barnes studied at Harvard with Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer; white he was influenced by dint of the simplified, Bauhaus-based esthetic of the two architects, Barnes's own designs are generally les austere. His greatest in quantity conspicuous project in Manhattan is the IBM corporate headquarters upon Madison Avenue (1983). He is well known for numerous museum buildings, among them the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (1971) widely considered an exemplary space in which to display contemporary art. Later museum casts include the Sarah M. Scaife Gallery at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute (1974) the Dallas Museum of Art (1983-84) the UCLA Hammer Museum in looks Angeles and the Katonah (NY) Museum of Art (both 1990) His 1981 building for the Asia Society in Manhattan was extensively redesigned in 2001 through Bartholomew Voorsanger as part of an expansion plan. Barnes produc master plans for the State University of novel York, Purchase, and for Yale, Colonial Williamsburg and the National University of Singapore. Houses that display a sensitivity to site and to materials dominated his early production, and he continued to design them completely through his career. In 1994, Barnes won the American Institute of Architects' Twenty five Year Award for his Haystack Mountain institute of Crafts (1962), a collection of shingled cottages linked by the agency of wooden decks overlooking the Maine coastline.

Annie Herron, 50 contemporary art dealer, died clan 24 of cancer, in the Bronx In the early '80 she was director of Semaphore East gallery in the East Village, which showed similar artists as Ellen Berkenblit, Mark Kostabi and Martin Wong A pioneer in Williamsburg, Brooklyn now a thriving art community, she render free of accessed Test-Site in 1991, and gave early in all senses to Roxy Paine, David Shapiro and Amy Cutler among others. In 1995 she co-directed Black & Herron gallery in SoHo and from 1997 to 2000 she co-directed Eyewash gallery in Williamsburg with Larry Walczak.

Irene Pijoan, 50 painter, died Aug. 18 in Berkeley of breast cancer. She was known for her filigree-like compositions upon cutout supports. She also designed public artworks in Oakland, Santa Clara and Seattle. She exhibited with Rena Bransten Gallery in San Francisco; a solo museum display held at the San Jose ICA in 2001 traveled to Switzerland.

Lillian Orlowsky, 89 painter of abstract canvases with jostling shapes and patches of color, died Aug. 7 in Provincetown, Mass. She studied with Hans Hofmann in the 1930 and was single of the few surviving WPA artists. In 1995 she had a three-venue retrospective at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the Cortland Jessup Gallery in Provincetown and the Cherry Stone Gallery in Wellfleet, Mass., where a exhibit of her oils from the '40 and '50 was upon view at the time of her death.

Hubert von Sonnenburg 76 German-born paintings conservator, died of cancer July 16 in of recent origin York. He began working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1959 and remained there until 1974 when he went to Munich as director of the two the Doerner Institute, a research center for conservation studies, and the conservation department of the Bavarian State Paintings Collection. In 1987 he was named director general of the Bavarian collection. He go [i]or[/i] come backed to the Met in 1991 as chairman of the paintings conservation department. An ready on fakes, forgeries and misattributions, he helped organize the exhibition "Rembrandt/ Not Rembrandt" and a exhibit of works by Goya from the museum's collection, the couple 1995.

Freddy De Vree 64 Belgian author of poems art critic and essayist, died July 3 in Antwerp. In the early 1960 he was co editor of the avant-garde periodicals Nul Randstad and De Tafelronde, in which he championed the COBRA move For more than 30 years, he was a agriculturist at BRT-3 (now Radio Klara), the Flemish cultural station. He published numerous essays and monographs upon such artists as Marcel Broodthaers, Pierre Alechinsky, Constant, Roland Topor, Andy Warhol, Jan Vanriet, Daniel Spoerri, Enrico Baj and Asger Jorn. From 1987 to 1992 he serv as president of the Belgian branch of the International Association of Art Critics.

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