Born in Nagoya on July 6, 1936, this Japanese conceptual artist and designer, who produced work in a wide array of media, much of it in association with his wife, Madeline Gins, died on May 18 in New York City. Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010):
Born in Paris on December 25, 1911, this French-born American sculptor, known for monumental abstract and often biomorphic works that dealt with the relationships of men and women, died on May 31 in New York City. Paul Frances Conrad (1924–2010):
Born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on June 27, 1924, this American editorial cartoonist, who garnered both praise and scorn for his political cartoons, which skewered dozens of politicians, died on September 4 in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. Corneille (1922–2010):
Born in Liège on July 3, 1922 , this Belgian-born Dutch artist who was cofounder of the influential art collective COBRA (1948–51) and painter of vibrant expressionistic works, died on September 5 in Paris. Leo Cullum (1942–2010):
Born in Newark, New Jersey on January 11, 1942, this American cartoonist, who featured humans as well as dogs, cats, birds, and other animals in his masterful gag cartoons, died on October 23 in Los Angeles, California. Raymond Grieg Mason (1922–2010):
Born in Birmingham on March 2, 1922, this British-born sculptor, who was known for his vibrant and complex narrative sculptures depicting street scenes, died on February 13 in Paris. Kenneth Noland (1924–2010):
Born in Asheville, North Carolina on April 10, 1924, this American painter of the Abstract Expressionist school died on January 5 in Port Clyde, Maine. Kazuo Ohno (1906–2010):
Born in Hakodate, Hokkaido on October 27, 1906, this Japanese performance artist, who was a leading exponent of buto (Butoh), a Japanese dance-theatre movement in which formal technique is eschewed and primal sexuality and the grotesque are explored, died on June 1 in Yokohama. Sigmar Polke (1941–2010):
Born in Oels, E.Ger. [now Oleśnica, Pol.] on February 13, 1941, this German artist, whose complex and layered paintings played an important role in the resurgence of modern German art died on June 10 in Cologne. Wu Guangzong (1919–2010):
Born in Yixing, Jiangsu province on July 5, 1919, this Chinese painter, who blended his training in both Chinese ink and brushwork and Western oil-painting styles into a unique form of modern art epitomized by his acclaimed landscapes, died on June 25 in Beijing
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