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Walter De Maria
American American artist, sculptor, illustrator and composer (1935 – 2013)
Walter Joseph De Maria[1] (October 1, 1935 – July 25, 2013)[2] was an American artist, sculptor, illustrator and composer, who lived and worked in New York City.
Walter de Maria's artistic practice is connected with minimal art, conceptual art, and land art of the 1960s.
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LACMA director Michael Govan said, "I think he's one of the greatest artists of our time." Govan, who worked with De Maria for a number of years, found De Maria's work "singular, sublime and direct".[2]
Life and career
De Maria was born in 1935 in Albany, California.
His parents were the proprietors of a local restaurant in Albany and were socially very active, while their son was mostly concentrated on music.[3] Walter De Maria's first academic interest was music—first piano, then percussion.
He also took to sports and cars, of which he made drawings.[1