Robert Vickrey, Magic-Realist Painter, Dies at 84
By WILLIAM GRIMES
Published: April 20, 2011, The New York Times
Robert Vickrey, a painter whose often unnerving depictions of shadow-streaked streets populated by nuns, clowns or children at play made him a leading figure of the magic realism school, died on Sunday at his home in Naples, Fla. He was 84.
The death was confirmed by his son, Scott.
Mr. Vickrey, who mastered the Renaissance technique of egg tem (showing 500 of 12957 characters). |
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