Brice Marden obituary

American painter who combined constant experimentation and a resistance to fashion in his workIn 1966, the artist Brice Marden, who has died of cancer aged 84, exhibited a canvas called The Dylan Painting in his first solo show, at the Bykert Gallery in New York. Six years earlier, Marden had married Pauline Baez, older sister of the singer Joan. Through his sister-in-law, he met a young Greenwich Village folk musician called Bob Zimmerman, and found him “a fantastic guy”.It was 1962