Dressed unassumingly in jeans, a chambray shirt, work boots and a baseball cap, Robert Irwin would stride into the university seminar room wearing one additional enhancement: The sober worker’s uniform of a typical mid-1970s male artist was topped off with a sly and blissful grin.
This will be a pleasure, the smile silently signaled to the small assembly of students, all prepping for an imagined future as artists or art historians.
A casual seminar format was conceived by Irwin, one of the most important American artists of the late 20th century, who died in San Diego on Wednesday. He was 95. Irwin’s death was confirmed by Pace Gallery, which represented the artist.
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