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Walter De Maria

1935 - 2013

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Walter Joseph De Maria (October 1, 1935 – July 25, 2013) was an American artist, sculptor, illustrator and composer, who lived and worked in New York City. Walter de Maria's artistic practice is connected with minimal art, conceptual art, and land art of the 1960s. LACMA director Michael Govan said, "I think he's one of the greatest artists of our time." Govan, who worked with De Maria for a number of years, found De Maria's work "singular, sublime and direct". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Walter De Maria is the 166th most popular sculptor (up from 173rd in 2019), the 5,325th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,943rd in 2019) and the 8th most popular American Sculptor.

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Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Walter De Maria ranks 166 out of 258. Before him are Tino di Camaino, James Pradier, Cephisodotus the Younger, Pietro Bracci, Halyna Sevruk, and Rudolf Belling. After him are Jan Brokoff, Gerhard Marcks, Giuseppe Prinzi, Ligier Richier, Ernst Neizvestny, and Johann Georg Pinsel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Walter De Maria ranks 243. Before him are Rusty Schweickart, Paul Goma, Bobby Vinton, Valerio Adami, Norma Bengell, and Barbara Harris. After him are Peret, Ludmila Belousova, Noriko Ohara, David Ruelle, Jaromil Jireš, and Ivan Dimitrov. Among people deceased in 2013, Walter De Maria ranks 228. Before him are Joanna Chmielewska, Angela Voigt, Georges Descrières, Robert Byrne, Ed Koch, and Norma Bengell. After him are Cayetano Ré, János Starker, Barry Jackson, Aleksei Yuryevich German, Domenico Bartolucci, and Rentarō Mikuni.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Walter De Maria ranks 5,325 out of 20,380. Before him are Ted Nugent (1948), Barbara Harris (1935), Henry Cowell (1897), William P. Gottlieb (1917), Lainie Kazan (1940), and Charles Fort (1874). After him are Reed Hastings (1960), Mike Flanagan (1978), Berry Gordy (1929), Janet Asimov (1926), Zakk Wylde (1967), and Playboi Carti (1996).

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Among SCULPTORS In United States

Among sculptors born in United States, Walter De Maria ranks 8. Before him are Isamu Noguchi (1904), Robert Smithson (1938), Dan Flavin (1933), Robert Morris (1931), Anna Coleman Ladd (1878), and Dennis Oppenheim (1938). After him are Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875), Duane Hanson (1925), Jacob Epstein (1880), Audrey Munson (1891), Edmonia Lewis (1844), and Daniel Chester French (1850).

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