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- <text id=91TT1865>
- <title>
- Aug. 19, 1991: From The Managing Editor
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Aug. 19, 1991 Hostages:Why Now? Who's Next?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- FROM THE MANAGING EDITOR, Page 4
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- <p> You may not immediately identify the name Richard Hess, but
- you will recognize his work. Since 1977 Dick has painted 14 covers
- for the magazine. Among the best known are his portrait of Deng
- Xiaoping, who was our Man of the Year in 1979, and his gatefold
- showing a cross section of Americans for our 1987 special issue
- on the 200th anniversary of the Constitution. A native of Royal
- Oak, Mich., Dick attended the University of Michigan and,
- improbably, began his career working for a company that
- manufactured paint-by-number sets. After many years as a
- graphic designer and an art director for major advertising
- firms, he returned to illustration in 1971, working out of his
- Connecticut home. Last week Dick died of complications from
- septic shock syndrome at the age of 57.
- </p>
- <p> Dick was a warm, outgoing man and natural teacher who
- occasionally used friends and family as models for TIME covers.
- For the Constitution cover he included several neighbors in
- Roxbury, Conn., as well as his son Mark (who appeared as a
- policeman) and TIME art director Rudy Hoglund (a handcuffed
- miscreant). Even the artist made a rare guest appearance in the
- portrait (as a pioneer in a coonskin hat). "He felt that when
- people saw his work they were looking at his soul," says Mark,
- who himself has painted 14 covers for TIME. Hoglund fondly
- recalls many long visits with Dick at his Connecticut farm. "He
- always welcomed me with `Hello, friend'--a wonderful
- greeting," he says. Which may be why it is now so hard for so
- many of us to say goodbye.
- </p>
- <p>-- Henry Muller
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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