Isabelle Collin Dufresne, known as Ultra Violet, died this morning after a battle with cancer. She was 78.
Dufresne was perhaps the most famous Mormon artist that most Mormons haven’t heard of. But at the height of the Pop Art movement and Andy Warhol’s Factory, Ultra Violet was well known in the New York art scene, and she is still well remembered for her memoir of that time, Famous For 15 Minutes: My Years with Andy Warhol.
Born in France in 1935, she met Salvador Dalí in 1954, becoming his muse and student. Then in the early 1960s Dufresne became interested in the Pop Art movement, and after Dalí introduced her to Andy Warhol in 1963, she became one of the participants in Warhol’s unorthodox studio, The Factory, and acted in more than a dozen films between 1965 and 1974. In 1969 she was replaced as Warhol’s primary “muse” and by the 1980s she left Warhol’s group.
After a 1973 near-death experience, Dufresne began a spiritual quest that eventually led to joining the LDS Church in 1981. She has been a participant in the New York City-based Mormon Artists Group in recent years, and has been well known among many members in her stake.
She is the author of three books and appeared in 19 films, including a small part in the academy award winning film Midnight Cowboy (1969).
http://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php/2014/06/her-15-minutes-at-an-end-ultra-violet-dead-at-78/
Baseball great and "Mr. Padre" Tony Gwynn has died, according to Major League Baseball and NBC Sports.
The word came via Twitter with this post: "We mourn the passing of Hall of Famer and @Padres icon Tony Gwynn, who died today at the age of 54."
The Hall of Fame outfielder had battled cancer, undergoing a second surgery in February 2012 that removed a tumor inside his right cheek.
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/sports/Tony-Gwynn-Dies-San-Diego-Padres-Baseball-Great--263296261.html
Surgeons grafted a nerve from his shoulder to replaces the nerve damaged by the tumor.
The former San Diego Padres, now San Diego State University's baseball coach spoke with NBC 7 after that surgery about the prognosis.
He had undergone a previous surgery in 2010 but it was the most recent surgery that noticeably changed his appearance and speech.
http://www.locusmag.com/News/2014/06/daniel-keyes-1927-2014/
Author Daniel Keyes, 86, died June 15, 2014.
Keyes is best known for his Hugo Award winning classic SF story “Flowers for Algernon” (F&SF, 1959), the Nebula Award winning and bestselling 1966 novel expansion, and the film version Charly (1968).
Keyes was born August 9, 1927 in New York. He worked variously as an editor, comics writer, fashion photographer, and teacher before joining the faculty of Ohio University in 1966, where he taught as a professor of English and creative writing, becoming professor emeritus in 2000. He married Aurea Georgina Vaquez in 1952, who predeceased him in 2013; they had two daughters.
Keyes began working in SF as an associate editor at Marvel Science Fiction in 1951, and his first SF story was “Precedent” there in 1952. Other novels include The Touch (1968; as The Contaminated Man, 1977), The Fifth Sally (1980), and The Asylum Prophecies (2009). He had other books published in Japan, including novel Until Death Do Us Part: The Sleeping Princess (1998), and wrote true crime volumes including Edgar Award winner The Minds of Billy Milligan (1982), sequel The Milligan Wars: A True-Story Sequel (1994 in Japan, forthcoming in the US), and Unveiling Claudia: A True Story of Serial Murder (1986). His memoir Algernon, Charlie and I: A Writer’s Journey (2000) discusses the experience of writing the story and its impact on his life. Keyes was honored as a SFWA Author Emeritus in 2000.
Keyes lived in south Florida, and is survived by his daughters.
- See more at: http://www.locusmag.com/News/2014/06/daniel-keyes-1927-2014/#sthash.hZdS1Wnz.dpuf
Author Daniel Keyes, 86, died June 15, 2014.
Keyes is best known for his Hugo Award winning classic SF story “Flowers for Algernon” (F&SF, 1959), the Nebula Award winning and bestselling 1966 novel expansion, and the film version Charly (1968).
Keyes was born August 9, 1927 in New York. He worked variously as an editor, comics writer, fashion photographer, and teacher before joining the faculty of Ohio University in 1966, where he taught as a professor of English and creative writing, becoming professor emeritus in 2000. He married Aurea Georgina Vaquez in 1952, who predeceased him in 2013; they had two daughters.
Keyes began working in SF as an associate editor at Marvel Science Fiction in 1951, and his first SF story was “Precedent” there in 1952. Other novels include The Touch (1968; as The Contaminated Man, 1977), The Fifth Sally (1980), and The Asylum Prophecies (2009). He had other books published in Japan, including novel Until Death Do Us Part: The Sleeping Princess (1998), and wrote true crime volumes including Edgar Award winner The Minds of Billy Milligan (1982), sequel The Milligan Wars: A True-Story Sequel (1994 in Japan, forthcoming in the US), and Unveiling Claudia: A True Story of Serial Murder (1986). His memoir Algernon, Charlie and I: A Writer’s Journey (2000) discusses the experience of writing the story and its impact on his life. Keyes was honored as a SFWA Author Emeritus in 2000.
Keyes lived in south Florida, and is survived by his daughters.
- See more at: http://www.locusmag.com/News/2014/06/daniel-keyes-1927-2014/#sthash.hZdS1Wnz.dpuf
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