Mel Ramos
Mel Ramos (born ✦July 24, 1935 - †October 14, 2018) was an American figurative painter, specializing most often in paintings of female nudes, whose work incorporates elements of realist and abstract art. Born in Sacramento, California, to a first-generation Portuguese-Azorean immigrant family, he gained popularity as part of the Pop Art movement of the 1960s. Ramos is "best known for his paintings of superheroes and voluptuous female nudes emerging from cornstalks or Chiquita bananas, popping up from candy wrappers or lounging in martini glasses". He is also a retired university art professor.
Marriage
Ramos married Leta Ramos in 1955. She was the model for many of his early nude paintings
Death
Ramos died of heart failure on October 14, 2018, at Kaiser Hospital in Oakland, California
- Artwork by Mel Ramos
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