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Ken Danby | Canadian painter, 67

Realist painter Ken Danby, 67, best known for his 1972 painting At the Crease, depicting a masked hockey goaltender, has died.

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Realist painter Ken Danby, 67, best known for his 1972 painting

At the Crease,

depicting a masked hockey goaltender, has died.

Greg McKee, manager of the Danby Studio in Guelph, said Mr. Danby was believed to have suffered a heart attack while canoeing Sunday in northern Ontario.

Mr. Danby, born March 6, 1940, in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, has been recognized as one of the world's foremost realist painters.

"Ken Danby gave back to his country in many ways," Michael Burtch, director and curator of the Art Gallery of Algoma, said yesterday in a statement. "His loss is tragic, but he has left a great legacy to this country."

Mr. Danby's painting of a masked ice-hockey goalie hunched in the crease is considered by many to be a Canadian national symbol (see examples of his work at his Web site via http://go.philly.com/danby).

He is survived by his wife and three sons. - AP

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