No services for Nick Dante Vaccaro, 70, Lawrence, are planned. His body was donated to Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan.
Mr. Vaccaro died Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2002, at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
He was born April 9, 1931, in Youngstown, Ohio, the son of Frank and Carmela Vaccaro.
Mr. Vaccaro was an artist, educator and a professor emeritus with 40 years of teaching experience at University of Texas, Austin, and Kansas University. In 1963, he joined the KU School of Fine Arts faculty as chairman of the department of drawing and painting. He continued as department chair through 1967, and he continued to teach drawing and painting until his retirement in 1995.
He received a bachelor's degree in art in 1958, and a master's degree in painting in 1960. He studied art from 1955 to 1956 at Youngstown University, from 1956 to 1959 at University of Washington, and from 1959 to 1960 at University of California at Berkeley. He was awarded fellowships from University of Washington and graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. His published articles, including "Gorky's Debt to Gaudier-Brzeska," have appeared in critical reviews, books, art publications and exhibition catalogs.
Primarily a painter, Mr. Vaccaro worked extensively in mixed media and created numerous sculptures, collages and boxes. He exhibited nationally for more than 50 years in museums and galleries, including the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts and Library of Congress. His work is included in a number of permanent collections such as the Montgomery, Ala., Museum of Fine Arts, Baker University, University of California at Berkeley and Butler Institute of American Art.
He married Lu Ray in 1955, in Washington, D.C. She survives of the home.
Other survivors include a son, Nick Jr., New York City; two brothers, Patt and Frank, both of Youngstown, Ohio; a sister, Mary Rose Strange, Youngstown, Ohio; and two grandsons.
Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements, and online condolences may be sent to www.rumsey-yost.com.
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