Richard Hamilton
February 24, 1922 – September 13, 2011
Richard Hamilton was a British artist who specialized in painting and collage. Known as the Father of Pop Art, and Britain’s answer to Andy Warhol, Hamilton made more than one lasting mark on popular music. During the mid ’60s, he became friends with Paul McCartney who eventually asked him to design the cover of what became the Beatles’ 1968 masterpiece The Beatles, known also as the White Album. It was Hamilton who came up with the simple yet iconic mostly plain white cover and inside collage. Prior to that, Hamilton issued a series of prints entitled Swinging London which featured shots of the Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger as he was being arrested on drug charges. Richard Hamilton was 89 when he passed away on September 13, 2011.
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