A touching personal essay to augment our tributes from last March

A tribute to the painter and writer who died last week.

and from September 2011, a reminder of the loss of artist Michael Richards

We looked up to Freud as a symbol of seriousness, of investigative tenacity.

In tribute to the Surrealist painter, a poem from David Pollard’s Self-Portraits series.

A New York memorial for the Korean-American artist, who died in Seoul last November, took place in June.

He argued for perceptual representation that engaged with larger traditions.

A founder of the Sculptors Guild who advocated for cultural relevance.

Tributes by Laurie Schneider Adams, David Carrier and others

Oppenheim believed that artists should “make things that carry with them the residue of where they have been.”