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Obituaries

ByRichardSandomir

NEWYORK TIMES

NEWYORK — Nancy Red-

din Kienholz, a contemporary

artist who,working withher

husband, sculptorEdwardKien-

holz, conceived daring and of-

ten-disturbinginstallationsthat

denounced child abuse, sexism,

racism,and the misuseof politi-

cal power, died Aug. 7 in a hos-

pital in Houston. She was 75.

The causewas cardiacar-

rest, said Peter Goulds,found-

ing director of L.A. Louver, the

gallery that represents the cou-

ple’s work.

Nancy Kienholz(pronounced

KEEN-holtz) was an amateur

photographer whenshe met and

marriedEdwardKienholzin

1972.He had a richly deserved

reputation as an artistic provo-

cateur whose workcombined el-

ements of surrealism, expres-

sionism, pop, and assemblage.

But she had little experience.

“Like Ed, I am self-taught,

except for the fact that I went to

the ‘School of Kienholz’ for over

20 years,” she said in a film that

accompanied an exhibition of

the couple’s work in 2005 at the

Baltic Center for Contemporary

Art in Gateshead,England. “He

taughtme everythingI know

about art. He taughtme to weld

and solder, cast figures, paint,

and to believe in my ‘eye.’ ”

She recognized that her de-

votion to art had to be as abso-

lute as his.

“Art was moreimportant to

him than he or I or our children,”

she told The Guardian in 2009,

“andoncethat was clear, it be-

came our focus, and it was fun.”

They were inseparable for 22

years,working in theirstudios

in Houston, Berlin, and Hope,

Idaho, and shopping for found

materialsin junk shopsand flea

markets to use for their elabo-

rate installationsand tableaux.

Artforum critic Jeffrey Kast-

ner calledtheirinstallations “ri-

otous,excoriating, and often

brutally blunt” in a preview of a

Kienholzshowat Fondazione

Prada in Milan in 2016.

Within “The Caddy Court”

(1987)— a Dodge van sand-

wichedbetween the front and

backendsof a 1978Cadillac —

presideninemockSupreme

Court justices whoare gro-

tesquelydepicted withheads

made of animal skulls, some de-

cayed, that had been preserved

by a taxidermist.

“TheBearChair”( 199 1)

showsa teddybearwhohas

sodomized a girl and is etching

a message into a dressing table

that says: “If you ever tell, I’ll

hurt your mamareal, real bad.”

The couple sometimes spent

several years on their projects,

including“The Hoerengracht”

(“Whore’s Canal”), which they

completed in 1988.A commen-

tary on the subjugation of the

female body, it is a garish recre-

ation of Amsterdam’s red-light

district withhalf-dressedman-

nequinprostitutesstanding be-

hind glowing windows and

lurking in alleys.

Whenthe National Gallery

in Londonannouncedin 2008

that it wouldinstall “The Hoe-

rengracht” alongwith old mas-

ters’paintingsof somewhat

similar scenes, the British

newspaperThe Independent

asked in a headline if the muse-

um was “prostituting itself for

the punters”— suggesting that

the venerable museumwas re-

laxingits standards with a pop-

ulist show to attract visitors.

Nancy Jo Reddin was born

on Sept. 9, 1943,in Los Ange-

les. Her father, Thomas,was an

officerwho rose to chief of the

Los Angeles Police Department

before resigning and becoming

a local newscaster. Her mother,

Betty (Parsons) Reddin, was a

real estate agent.

She attendedthe University

of SouthernCaliforniafor a

short timebefore working as a

court reporter, medical assis-

tant, and emergency room at-

tendant. She met Kienholzat a

party hosted by her parents.

“I knew who he was — you

couldnotnothave knownwho

Ed Kienholzwas,” Mrs. Kien-

holz told The Guardian, largely

because of the public stir

caused by his installation,

“BackSeat Dodge ’38 (1964),

whichshoweda coupleengaged

in sexual activity in an old car.

The Los Angeles County Board

of Supervisorstriedto ban the

sculptureas pornographic.

One of their most ambitious

works was Nancy Kienholz’s

idea:“The Merry-Go-World, or

Begat by Chanceand the Won-

der Horse Trigger,” an octago-

nal merry-go-roundwithcalli-

ope music, flashinglights, and

broken-down carousel animals,

including a giraffe with crutch-

es for legs.

Viewersspin a wheel of for-

tune to select one of eightsealed

compartments to view artifacts

from wealthy, poor, vulnerable,

and humblesituationsaround

the world (including Paris, Lux-

or, Houston, and Rio de Janei-

ro) that suggest how geography

determinesdestiny.

“ ‘Merry-Go-World’ com-

binesall the sharpness,craft,

and realism of the assemblag-

ist’s craft intoa workthat is

tough without coarseness, wise

without judgment, amused

without condescension,” critic

WilliamWilsonwrote in The

Los Angeles Times in 1992.

In the yearssinceEdward

Kienholz’s death in 1994,Nancy

Kienholz has created her own

assemblages and lenticular art,

in whichone subject morphsin-

to another in three stages.

Christ on the cross,for example,

turnsinto SantaClaus; a street

paved with gold becomesa road

of guns; and a girl on a desolate

street is transformedinto the

Statue of Liberty.

Mrs. Kienholzalso oversaw

the restoration of installations,

notablyEdward Kienholz’s

“FiveCardStud” (1972), which

depicts a horrifyingcrime: A

groupof masked whitemen

castrate a black manas the

lights of vehicles illuminate the

scene.“I felt it cameinsidemy

soul when I was workingon it,”

she said in a video produced by

The Los Angeles Timeswhen

the restored“FiveCardStud”

was exhibited at the Los Ange-

les County Museumof Art in

2011.“I was very upset over it,

that therewas this hatred and

uglinessin my country, and I

think it’s still there.

“Maybe it’s not spoken of the

sameway,” she added,“but it’s

alive and well.”

Mrs. Kienholz leaves her

mother; her brother, Michael;

her daughters, Christine Kerr

and Jennette Kienholz; her son,

Noah; and two grandchildren.

Her marriage to Raymond

Acuff, her first husband, ended

in divorce.

For most of the Kienholzes’

first decade together, Edward

Kienholzalonesignedtheir

works. But he cameto have sec-

ond thoughts. In the catalog to

“The KienholzWoman,” an ex-

hibition at GalerieMaeghtin

Zurich in 1981, he surprised his

wife by declaringthat all their

work in those first nine years be

retroactively credited as theirs.

Nancy Kienholz, creator of provocative art

LEFTERIS PITARAKIS/ASSOCIATED PRESS/20 09

“Whore’s Canal,’’ oneof thecreationsof Mrs. Kienholzandherhusband,Ed,addressedthe

issueof prostitutionandthesubjugationof thefemalebody.

ByHarrisonSmith

WASHINGTONPOST

WASHINGTON— Celso Pi-

ña, a self-taught Mexican accor-

dionist who turned his home-

townof Monterrey into an un-

likely oasis for cumbia, the

Colombian dance music, then

became a Latin musicsuperstar

with his fusion of rock,reggae,

ska, hip-hop, tropical music and

NorthernMexicanrhythms,

died Wednesday at a hospital in

Monterrey. He was 66.

The causewas a heart at-

tack,his recordlabel, La Tuna

Group, said in a statement. Mr.

Piñawasin the midst of a

North American tour, witha

performance this past Saturday

in Milwaukee and an Aug. 30

show scheduledin Arlington,

Texas.

In what was apparentlyhis

last tweet, he wrote Wednesday

in Spanish: ‘‘There is no one

who resistscumbia.’’ The tweet

included a video of one of his

biggest hits, the semi-autobio-

graphicaldancetune‘‘Cumbia

Sobre el Rio,’’ in which his

groupsingsin Spanish:‘‘From

Monterrey, a Colombian cum-

bia for everyone.’’

The truthof that statement

was almost unimaginable when

Mr. Piña began performing in

the 1970s, on a two-rowaccor-

dion his father had given him as

a gift. In Monterrey, a sun-

baked industrial city in the foot-

hills of the Sierra Madre Orien-

tal, polka and waltztuneshad

longdominated dancehalls

and neighborhood parties.

But Mr. Piñafoundhimself

enchanted by the music of Co-

lombianaccordionists Aníbal

Velásquez and Alfredo Gutiérr-

ez. Listening to theirrecords on

repeat, he spent three months

learning his first song.

Withhis brothersEduardo,

Rubén, and Enrique, he sere-

nadedgirlsin his Monterrey

neighborhood and,at 20, left

his administrative position at a

children’s hospitalto becomea

full-timemusician. Slowly,

cumbia beganto take holdin

the city.

Rootedin a country thou-

sands of miles away, Mr. Piña’s

songswereinitiallyscornedby

local elites and authorities, with

concerts sometimes shut down

by the police. ‘‘My music pro-

voked the madness of the peo-

ple,’’ he said last year. They also

spurred somethinglike peace:

Amid reports that rival gangs in

Monterrey stopped fightingon-

ly at the sound of cumbia, the

writer CarlosMonsiváis dubbed

Mr. Piña‘‘the accordionist of

Hamelin,’’ a referenceto the

PiedPiper whose musiclured

away rats.

CelsoPiña;spread Colombiandance music

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Cheryl St.George, néeBoudreau,of

Middletown, RI,passed away peace-

fullyathomeonSaturday, August 17,

2019, following herbrave 4-yearbattle

againststage four coloncancer.

She was bornon September 9,

1953,to Raymondand Irene (Boch)

Boudreau,and grew up in Lexington,

MA.Much to herdismay, she was

not an onlychild,but theeldestofsix

children, aroleshe laterembraced as

the hostfor all majorfamily events. Her

homes weretrulythe gathering places

that hold so many cherished memories.

Cheryl was extremelygenerous, pas-

sionateabout her causes, and wanted

onlythe best forthoseshe loved.

Shewas agraduate of Wheaton

College (1975),and spent20years

working in the fashion industryinthe

greaterBoston area, before devoting

her time to philanthropy.She served on

the leadership boardsand fundraising

committees of theBoston Conservatory,

BethanyHillPlace,theCharlesRiver

School &Newton CountryDay School,

and theWalnutHill School forthe Arts.

Cheryl hadabeautifulvoice and

enjoyedsinging as amember of church

choirs over the years,and mostrecently

withthe Amicable Congregational

Church Choir in Tiverton, RI.She also

lovedto read and would enthusiasti-

cally shareliterary findswith those

around her.She had an eyefor art,

architecture, fashion, andfurniture.

Hersenseofstyle sether apart and

drewyou in. She turnedheads.

Cheryl wasprecededin death by her

father, Raymond,and stepfather,Ken-

neth Pond. She is survivedbyher hus-

band, BillSt.George, of Middletown,

RI, daughter Melissa Bartholomew,

son-in-law,Doug, and her 10-month

old grandson, Wilder, of Bozeman,MT.

She is also survivedbyher mother,

Irene,ofFranklin MA,her brother

Mark (Nancie),sisters,Karen,Paula,

Laurie,Suzanne (Tony), stepson,Chris

(Hillary), stepdaughter, Lee(Stuart),

theirchildrenand countless niecesand

nephews.

Bill andCheryl married on De-

cember16, 2016,andtogetherthey

broughtrenewedlight into eachother’s

lives; they traveled, enjoyedmusic, and

socializedwith cherishedfriendsand

family in the time theyhad together.

Acelebration of her life will be held

at Trinity Church, OneQueen Anne

Square,Newport, RI, on Monday,

September9, 2019, at 11:00a.m. As

anexpression ofsympathy,thefamily

asksthatyou make donations to Hope

Hospice &Palliative Care, 1085North

Main St., Providence, RI 02904 (https://

http://www.hopehealthco.org/ways-to-give/

donatenow/)

ST.GEORGE, Cheryl A.

SHIELDS, RuthF. (Bingham)

Of Walpole,formerlyofDedham,
passedaway on August20, 2019atthe
ageof75. Belovedwife of JosephM.
Shields.Devoted motherofMichael
J. Shields andhis wife Julianneof
Norwood, Marybeth Vineand her hus-
bandDoug of GA,TimothyJ.Shields
of Walpole,JosephP. Shields andhis
wifeLaurenof AttleboroandSusanE.
Cahilland herhusbandDavid of CO.
Sister of LouisF.Binghamand his wife
EleanorofNorwoodandFrancisE.
Binghamandhis wife JaniceofWest
Roxbury. Cherished grandmotherof
11 grandchildren,Tom, Ben, Olivia,
Brendan,Chloe, Colin, Rylie, Avery,
Brinley, Aidan andAnnabel. Daughter
of the late Francis and Ruth (Genter)
Bingham. Also survivedbymany
nieces and nephews. Funeral from the
Kraw-KornackFuneral Home, 1248
WashingtonSt.,NORWOOD,Monday,
August26, 2019at 9amfollowedbya
FuneralMass at 10am at theBlessed
Sacrament Church, Walpole.Visiting
HourswillbeheldonSunday, August
25, 2019from2-6pm. Burial will be at
Highland Cemetery, Norwood.Inlieu
of flowers donations maybemade in
her nameto the Dana-FarberCancer
Institute, P.O. Box 849168, Boston, MA
02284-9168
http://www.dana-farber.org

kraw-kornackfuneralhome.com

Family Ownedand Operated

781-762-0482

Of Medford, formerlyofTralee,

CountyKerry, Ireland, August21st.

Beloved sonofthe late Josephand

Nora Sugrue. Dearbrother of Bridget

“Bridie”O’Sullivanand herhusband

MichaelofMedford,Mary Sheehy and

her husband John of NewJerseyand

the late AngelaSugrue and Maurice

Sugrue. Loving uncle of Michael

O’Sullivan andhis wifeMarilynof

Gloucester,Joseph O’Sullivan and his

wifePam of Mountain View,CAand

AmyGoyetteand her husband Kevin

of Westborough.He is alsosurvived by

severalgrandnieces and grandnephews.

Jameswas bornand raised in Tralee,

CountyKerry, Ireland.Hehas beena

residentofMedford since 1964.He

and hisfamily also owned ahomeon

Lewis BayinWestYarmouth for many

years.Jamesworkedasacarpentry

supervisorat University Hospital in

Boston for over 30 years. He wasanac-

tivecommunicant at St.Joseph Parish

in Medford,alover of animals and an

avid reader.James was devotedtohis

family.Hewas aloving brother and a

dotinguncle. Relatives &friends are

invited to attend visiting hoursat the

Breslin Funeral Home, 610Pleasant

St., MALDEN, on Tuesday, August 27

from10-11 AM followed by aMassof

Christian Burial celebrated at St.Jo-

sephChurch,114 High St., Medford,at

11:30 AM. Serviceswillconclude with

intermentin OakGrove Cemetery in

Medford. In lieuofflowers, donations

in his memorymay be made to Catholic

TV,P.O.Box 9196, 34 ChestnutSt.,Wa-

tertown, MA 02471.www.bostoncatho-

lic.org.BreslinFuneralHome (781)

324-0486, breslinfuneralhome.com

SUGRUE,JamesC.

Breslin Funeral Home

(781)324-0486

http://www.breslinfuneralhome.com

“Jack” -OfWilmington,

formerlyofMedford.

Beloved husbandofthe late

AliceTannian. Loving father of Lisa

Turner and her husband Jeff,Kathleen

Sheehan allofPA, JosephTannian

and his wife Renee of VA,Christopher

Tannianand his wife SallyofWake-

field,EileenTannian of Wilmington

and the late John Tannian andhis

surviving spouseSharon of FL.Brother

of FrancisTannian and Mary Perkins.

Also survivedby12grandchildren,

many great-grandchildren and many

nieces and nephews. He was asourceof

love, laughter,generosity and relentless

optimismto all who knewhim and

encountered himinhis life’s endeavors.

AFuneral Mass willbecelebrated for

Jack,Mondaymorning, August26,

2019,inSt. Clement Church, Medford

at 10:00.Relativesand friends invited.

Calling Hours Sunday, in the George L.

DohertyFuneral Home, 855Broadway

(Powder House Sq.), SOMERVILLE,

2-6. IntermentWildwood Cemetery,

Wilmington. Late Veteran US AirForce,

Korea. In lieu of flowers, donations may

be made in Jack’s memory to,Wateris-

lifekenya.com.

TANNIAN,JohnJ. Jr.

Age90, of Wayland,MA(formerly

of Newton,MA),died on August18,

2019. Jack Weaver,husbandofthe late
      Voni Weaver,died of naturalcauses
      at his home in Wayland, MA.Heis
      survived by hisson TracyWeaver(and
      wife Cindy), and his daughters, Teresa
      Weaver,WendyWinn(and husband
      Dan),and Amanda Lye(and hus-
      bandKin). He is alsosurvivedbyone
      nephew, three grandchildren,and two
      great-grandchildren.Jack’slove of mu-
      sic, particularly jazz,directedhis course
      through life: an avid trumpetplayer
      early in life, in college at the Cincinnati
      Conservatory, as an AirForceBands-
      man, and throughout his professional
      career teaching at Berklee College of
      Musicand playing lead trumpetinthe
      Herb Pomeroy Orchestra in the early
      1960s. Hismanytalentsincluded fine
      woodworkingand investing in thestock
      market, an interesthehelped others
      with until his final days.Hewill be
      missed for hisgreat humor,his curious
      mind andhis deep knowledge of music.
      Hismemory (andlove of jazz)can be
      honored by contributions to the jazz
      radiostation, WICN, 50 PortlandStreet,
      Worcester, MA 01608, wicn.org. There
      will be no services.

WEAVER,JohnW.

SCARLETT, BeverlyT.

Age 82, of Cotuit, MA,formerlyof
Malden,MA,onAug.20, 20 19.Bornin
Malden, daughter of thelateWalter and
Agnes(Belzarine)Grover. Loving wife
of JamesScarlett Sr.ofCotuit,devoted
mother of JamesJr. of Fort Lauder-
dale, FL,Laura M. Cavallaro (Charles
Joseph) of Middleton,MA, Lisa A.
Freker (Gary) of Lowell, MA,DonnaJ.
Scarlett of Lynn,MA, sister of WalterC.
GroverJr. (Susan)ofFL. Grandmother
of Ashley&Ryan Freker of Lowell,
andMax, Andrew&Ava Cavallaro of
Middleton,MA.
FuneralMass on Monday,Aug.26,
2019 at 11:30AMinChrist theKing
Church, Jobs Fishing Rd., Mashpee,
MA.Burial will be private.
Memorialsmay be madetoCompas-
sionate Care ALS (CCALS), P.O. Box
1052, West Falmouth,MA02574.
Foronline guestbook and directions,
visit johnlawrencefuneralhome.com

VERRO,Mary(Pirrello)

Of EastBoston, peacefullyonAug.21,

in her97thyear.Complete noticein

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RONCEVIC,Josip

Of Revere,formerly of EastBoston,
unexpectedlyonAug.20.FuneralAu-
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