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Richard Hambleton's mysterious figures, like this one on a Lower East Side corner, "could represent watchmen or danger or the shadows of a human body after a nuclear holocaust or even my own shadow," he said in 1984.
Hank O'Neal; thumbnail, Ben Buchanan, 1980
Richard Hambleton
Died on October 29, 2017 at age 65
Mr. Hambleton was a conceptual artist who painted startling black silhouettes on buildings throughout Manhattan in the early 1980s, earning him the nickname “the Shadowman.”
Notable Deaths 2017
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