John Roy (September 13, 1930 – June 13, 2001) was a noted professor in the Art Department at the

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from 1964 until his retirement in 1994. He continued to paint until his death in 2001. His work included

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and

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and he created a remarkable and highly original body of work that represents an important contribution to the history of late twentieth-century American painting. Roy was a contemporary and colleague of

Chuck Close Charles Thomas Close (July 5, 1940 – August 19, 2021) was an American painter, visual artist, and photographer who made massive-scale photorealist and abstract portraits of himself and others. Close also created photo portraits using a very l ...

, and the two influenced each other's work considerably. Roy was the subject of one of Close's more noted paintings.

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