* Alan Harper; Producer, Arts Editor of ‘CBS News Sunday Morning’

Alan Harper, 61, television producer who was the arts editor of “CBS News Sunday Morning.” Harper produced segments on diverse artists as ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev and 19th-Century French painter Georges Seurat. Harper, born in Manhattan, studied at the Yale University School of Drama and at the New School. He worked in off-Broadway theater before joining CBS in 1958. In New York on Oct. 19 of lung cancer.