Patrick Caulfield, 69; Painter Helped Shape British Pop Art in ‘60s
Patrick Caulfield, 69, who helped define British pop art in the 1960s along with David Hockney and others, died Thursday in London of undisclosed causes.
Better known in Britain than in the U.S., the painter and printmaker staged his first American retrospective in 1999 at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Conn.
He was known for his spare, precise studies of interiors and still lifes.
Although he was long associated with pop art, a catalog for a 1999 exhibition at London’s Hayward Gallery said his work “addresses the central concerns of European painting: how light falls, how space is organized, how to reconcile different ways of looking at things.”
Caulfield was born in London and educated at its Chelsea School of Art and Royal College of Art. He later lectured at the Chelsea School.
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