Ian Hornak, Painter Known For Photo-Realism Style, 58

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Ian Hornak, an American painter known for landscapes and still lifes
rendered in the photo-realist tradition, died December 9, 2002, at a
hospital in New York, New York, The cause of death not being released,
at the age of 58.

Hornak, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, received his art training at
the University of Michigan and Wayne State University.

He moved to New York City, New York, in 1967, where he kept a studio for
many years. He did most of his painting at his home in East Hampton, New
York.

He had his first one-man show at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York
in 1971 and soon caught the attention of prominent critics.

John Canaday, writing in the New York Times in 1974, said Hornak was
"right at the top of the list of romantically descriptive painters
today."

A draftsman from an early age, Hornak was fascinated by the Renaissance
masters and by photography.

His work, exhibited mainly in New York, New York, galleries, has been
described as evoking a ghostly double-exposure effect.

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