The New York art and rare books dealer John McWhinnie died yesterday in a snorkeling accident while on vacation in the British Virgin Islands. He was 43.
Virgin Islands police told East Hampton Patch that McWhinnie and his wife, jewelry designer Maria Beaulieu, were caught in a current while snorkeling on a coral reef off Savannah Bay beach, half an hour from Tortola. Read More
John Chamberlain, a multi-tasking artist who made sculptures out of crushed, often vibrantly painted automobile parts that came to define his career while flouting connections to any single movement or trend, has died. He was 84. Read More
John C. Wessel, a New York art dealer who championed gay artists and work addressing issues of sexual difference, died of ALS, on Dec. 9, according to a notice in The New York Times. (Thank you to Artnet’s Twitter account for linking to the piece.)
Mr. Wessel started his gallery, called Wessel O’Connor, with his future husband William C. O’Connor, in October 1985, in Rome, where they had moved from New York. Operating from the Italian capital, they gave many East Village artists, like Mike Bidlo and Walter Robinson, their first European shows. Read More
Robert Loughlin, a painter and design expert who was a leading source of Modernist pieces throughout the 1980s and ’90s in New York, died on Sept. 27 at the age of 62. The cause of death was being hit by a car while crossing a road near his home in North Bergen, N.J. Read More
