Jules Olitski, a prominent member of the second generation of American abstract expressionist painters in the 1960s, died Sunday of cancer at New York’s Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He was 84. The Ukraine-born, New York City-raised artist (above, in 1964) was famous for his beautiful color-field works of flat colors stained or sprayed onto the canvas. A contemporary of Frankenthaler and Lichtenstein, Olitski studied at the National Academy School and the Beaux-Arts Institute in New York. (LA Times)