Gibson A. Danes, Yale Scholar; Ilse Getz-Danes, Artist

Gibson A. Danes, a former dean of Yale’s Art and Architecture School, and his wife, Ilse Getz-Danes, a painter, died of carbon monoxide poisoning, Litchfield, Conn., police said this week.

Danes, chairman of the department of arts at UCLA from 1952 to 1957 was 81. Ms. Getz-Danes was 75.

Police said Ms. Getz-Danes, who had Alzheimer’s disease, was apparently killed by her husband, who committed suicide.

Their bodies were found in their car Friday night, inside the garage at their home.

Danes headed the Yale School of Art from 1958 to 1968 and was dean of visual arts at the New York State University College at Purchase from 1968 until he retired in 1978.

Danes was co-author of the book “Looking at Modern Painting.”

Ms. Getz-Danes was a painter and collage artist. She specialized in three-dimensional works, some of which were exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts in Phoenix, Ariz., the Neuberger Museum in Purchase and the Alex Rosenberg Gallery in Manhattan.