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Lee Hall in her studio in Massachusetts in 2013.
Christopher Clamp
Lee Hall
Died on April 17, 2017 at age 82
Ms. Hall was an abstract landscape painter who served as president of the Rhode Island School of Design in the 1970s and ’80s and wrote a hotly contested biography of the painters Elaine and Willem de Kooning.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.