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Early life

Sikkema was born on August 13, 1948, in Morrison, Illinois, the younger of two children of Dwaine Louis Sikkema and Emily "Billie" (Howe) Sikkema. He attended the

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Career

Sikkema began working with art in 1971 and opened his first gallery in 1976, in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. He was a partner in the art gallery Sikkema Jenkins & Co, which is located in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City. The place was founded in 1991 by him under the name Wooster Gardens.

Death

Sikkema died on January 15, 2024, at the age of 75, after he was stabbed to death in his

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townhouse. Two days later, 30-year-old Alejandro Triana Tevez was arrested as a suspect. Sikkema sustained eighteen stab wounds, most of them to the face and chest, and $3,000 was stolen from his home.

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