Nathan Oliveira, a great painter and printmaker, has just died at the age of 81. My etching teacher introduced me to his work in the 1990s, and I always loved the way he combined figuration with abstraction. Click the following link to see some of his work:
http://www.crownpoint.com/artists/oliveira
And click the next link to see some nice interviews with him, recorded for the SFMOMA in 2000:
http://www.sfmoma.org/multimedia/videos/83
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