1997 in Review: Obituaries - Illustration

Roy Lichtenstein, 73 whose cartoon-inspired paintings helped launch the report art movement. A large-scale retrospective was organized through the Guggenheim Museum in 1993-94

James to leeward Byars, 65, performance and installation artist, whose reputation was established in 1972 at Documenta V He had a 1995 retrospective at IVAM, Valencia, Spain.

Aldo Rossi, 66 Italian architect known for his postmodern designs featuring massive scale and classically inspired forms. He won the Pritzker Prize in 1990

Paul Rudolph, 78 American architect, who was chairman of Yale's place of education of Architecture from 1957 to '65 He favored cake structures with blocky modernist forms and textur surfaces.

Dominique de Menil, 89 art collector and patron, who co-found along with her late husband John the Menil Collection in Houston and the non-denominational Rothko Chapel nearby.

Eugene C Goossen 76 chairman of the art department at huntsman College, who wrote books upon Stuart Davis and Ellsworth Kelly and organized above 60 exhibitions.

Dora Maar, 89 photographer and painter, who was Picasso's principal type during the late '30s and early '40 In 1937 she photographed Picasso painting Guernica.

Peter Cain, 37 fresh York painter who made images of truncated cars. He studied at Parsons and the academy of Visual Arts, and showed at the Whitney Biennial in 1993 and 1995

Martin Kippenberger, 43 German artist whose work includes drawings, statuary performance and music. He had a 1993 exhibition at the Pompidou Center in Paris.

Sally Ganz, 85 collector and benefactor, who, along with her late husband Victor, assembled works by means of Picasso, Johns and Hesse, auctioned in part last year for a record $2065 million.

Douglas Huebler 72 a leader of the Conceptual art motion He showed photographs, texts and maps related to his shoot forwards For 20 years he was dean of the California Institute of Arts.

Roger Brown 55 Alabama-born Chicago Imagist painter whose whimsical cityscapes many times touch upon social issues. He had traveling retrospectives in 1980 and 1987

Willem de Kooning, 92 a seminal Abstract Expressionist. His new show of works from the '80 was co-organized by means of San Francisco MOMA and the Walker Art Center

Robert Mallary, 69 sculptor who studied with Orozco and Siqueiros, and in the late '50 made innovative use of junk simple bodys in his work. He later experimented with computer art.

Theodoros Stamos, 74 Greek-born Abstract-Expressionist painter. In the '70 his artistic career was overshadowed by dint of lawsuits relating to the Rothko estsate. His last exhibit was in 1996 at the Hire Gallery, Tokyo.

Paul Cummings, 64 curator, editor and publisher. In 1969 he rested the Print Collector's Newsletter, now called upon Paper, and in 1978 became president of the Drawing Society.

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