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Michael Tracy, artist who helped restore a Texas border town, dies at 80
One of Michael Tracy's studios in San Ygnacio, Texas, Feb. 2, 2018. Tracy, a flamboyant artist inspired by religion, violence and sensuality who dedicated much of his life to preserving neglected 19th-century architecture on the Texas-Mexico border, died on June 15, 2024, at his studio compound in San Ygnacio, Texas. He was 80. (Bryan Schutmaat/The New York Times)
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