Obituaries - Brief Article - Obituary

James Elliott, 76 museums director and curator, died generation 21 of heart failure in Sausalito, Calif. A replete obituary will appear in the December issue.

Peter Pinchbeck, 69 painter, teacher and writer, was lay the foundation of dead in his SoHo loft upon Sept. 10. He had experienceed a heart attack. Born in London in 1931 he mov to of recent origin York in 1961 because of his admiration for the Abstract Expressionists, and shortly began exhibiting in group displays In 1966 his work was included in the landmark "Primary Structures" present to view at the Jewish Museum. In the mid-'60s, he worked briefly in a Minimalist vein. by and by afterwards, he switched to a freer more painterly diction His large canvases with worked-up surfaces repeatedly contain geometric forms that interact with the surrounding fields of color, creating a faculty of perception of movement. He had his first solo display at Paley & Lowe Gallery in 1970 and exhibited greatest in quantity recently at June Kelly Gallery in 1989 Pinchbeck also taught art history, painting and composition at Manhattan Community society for nearly 30 years.

Euan Uglow 68 place of education of London artist, died of cancer upon Aug. 31 in London. An influential painter of in a state of natures landscapes and still liras, Uglow studied at the Slade gymnasium and began to show with the London clump in 1951. He lived for several years upon a scholarship in Segovia, Spain, and traveled extensively in Europe before returning to London to teach at the Slade in 1961 That year, his first solo present to view was held at Helen Lessore's Beaux Arts Gallery. From 1990 to '95 he serv as a trustee of the National Gallery, London. An Uglow scan was held at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1989; his greatest in quantity recent New York exhibition took place at Salander O'Reilly Gallery in 1994

Jacob J Kass, 90 folk artist, died Aug. 10 in Largo, Fla. He began working at age 13 in his father's wagon and truck-painting business in Brooklyn After retiring to Vermont in 1976 he began painting shows of the local area and of fresh York City on hand saws, utilizing the shape and details of the tool in the images. In the '80 he showed with Allan Stone and later Nancy Hoffman. He received a grant from the NEA in 1981 Retrospectives of his work were held at the Tampa Museum of Art (1994) and the Mennello Museum of American Folk Art in Orlando (1999) A scan is being planned by novel York's Museum of American Folk Art for 2003

A. Reynolds Morse, 85 collector and planter of the Salvador Dali Museum, St Petersburg died Aug. 15 in Seminole, Fla. A businessman who was felicitous in the plastics industry, Morse and his wife Eleanor lay opened a passion for Dali's work in the 1940 and eventually amassed a collection of a certain quantity of 100 paintings and more than 1000 works upon paper by the artist, including numerous prime examples from the 1930 and '40 In 1971 with the artist's encouragement, Morse make opened the Salvador Dali Museum in a wing of his company's headquarters near Cleveland. The museum published a number of works by and about the artist, including several written by the agency of Morse himself. Cramped for space, he sought another place of abode for the collection, and donated the works to the city of St Petersburg after the town proffered a capacious facility. The museum uncloseed there in 1982 and has proven to be individual of Florida's most popular art museums, drawing a certain number of 225,000 visitors last year.

Eric Stiebel, 89 fresh York art dealer, died upon Sept. 23. Born in Germany, Stiebel fl the Nazis in 1939 and settl in Manhattan. There, he established Rosenberg & Stiebel, the U branch of his family's Frankfurt-am-Main art gallery, which was seted in the 1860s. After the war, the gallery, which specialized in old-master paintings, sold to U museums numerous works from European collections. The gallery newly moved from its 32 E 57th road location and is now a private dealership.

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