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Obituary: Photographer and poet Duane Michals never forgot McKeesport or followed the rules

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By Marylynne Pitz Verified
| Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Verified
As a boy, Duane Michals loved counting stars in the fiery night sky above his family’s hilltop home in McKeesport. He fulfilled his boyhood dreams of adventure, forging a stellar international reputation by diving deeply into the storytelling power of photography. His memorable sequences of black-and-white images featured text or poetry on the white borders of his prints, allowing him to reflect on death, memory, the nature of time, spirituality and his childhood home.
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David Hockney, artist renowned for his pool scenes, has died at 88

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By Mary Thomas, Kevin Kirkland Verified, Marylynne Pitz Verified
| Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Verified
LONDON — Artist David Hockney, whose paintings of pools shimmering in the Los Angeles sunshine became icons of 20th-century art, died Thursday, his publicist said. He was 88. Hockney was born in the north of England but lived much of his life in Southern California, making its sun-drenched suburban views a major motif. Later in life he returned to Europe, finding renewed inspiration in the wooded hills of his native county of Yorkshire and the fields and trees of France’s Normandy region.
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Obituary: Art collector and dealer 'with an excellent eye' championed artists of southwestern Pa.

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By Marylynne Pitz Verified
| Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Verified
While he taught guided missile technology in the Army and studied electrical engineering, it was a painting in his mother’s home that fueled Gary Grimes’ passion for researching the lives and work of southwestern Pennsylvania artists. Mr. Grimes died of colon cancer on March 19, one day after his 87th birthday, at his Mt. Lebanon apartment.
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