Peter Joseph, Painter of Quietly Powerful Abstractions, Is Dead at 91

Peter Joseph, who is best known for his minimalist paintings often featuring squares and rectangles, has died at age 91. Reached by ARTnews, Lisson Gallery, which has represented Joseph for much of his career, said that the artist died of complications related to a broken hip.
Born in London in 1929, Joseph studied art in Florence, Italy, and was greatly influenced by the Renaissance masterpieces he encountered there. He had a brief stint as a figurative painter, but, inspired by Ellsworth