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Calvin Tomkins, famed New Yorker art writer, died at 100 in Rhode Island from stroke complications.
Calvin Tomkins, a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker known for his insightful profiles of major 20th-century artists like Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp, and Jasper Johns, died at 100 in Middletown, Rhode Island, from complications after a stroke.
A Princeton graduate and former fiction writer, he joined The New Yorker in 1960 and spent over five decades chronicling the evolution of modern art movements including pop, conceptual, and minimalism.
His work, noted for its clarity and depth, informed numerous books and shaped public understanding of the art world’s transformation into a cultural and social phenomenon.
He was married four times, had four children, and donated his papers to MoMA.
Calvin Tomkins, el famoso escritor de arte neoyorquino, murió a los 100 años en Rhode Island de complicaciones de un derrame cerebral.