CHICAGO—Marshall Holleb, a Chicago attorney committed to the city's cultural institutions, died on December 7 of heart failure. He was 91. Holleb was a founding trustee and longtime general counsel of the Museum of Contemporary Art; he helped the museum assemble its collection at its original location in the 1960s and move to a new site in the 1990s. He was also an organizer for and donor to the Field Museum and the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. In the mid-1980s, Holleb helped lead the successful battle to save the Chicago Theatre. His firm, Holleb & Coff, specialized in real estate, but he had many clients in the arts as well.

NYACK, N.Y.—Former Museum of Modern Art curator Mildred Constantine Bettelheim died on December 10 at the age of 95, the New York Times reports. Constantine, who used her maiden name professionally, popularized the often-ignored or difficult-to-categorize fields of graphic design, posters, and ephemera. She was associate curator and then curatorial consultant in MoMA's architecture and design department from 1943 through 1970, organizing important solo exhibitions for such designers as Alvin Lustig and Massimo Vignelli and group exhibitions of collections of signs, 20th-century posters, and other graphic materials. After leaving MoMA, Constantine produced exhibitions and more than a dozen books on caricature and cartoons, photography, and decorative arts. She also became increasingly interested in textile and fiber art, curating two exhibitions on the subject.

NEW YORK—Sculptor Lawrence Fane died on November 28 of prostate cancer, the New York Times reports. Fane, who was 75, sculpted semi-abstract, Expressionistic forms from steel, bronze, concrete, and other materials. He was greatly inspired by the notebooks and drawings of Italian Renaissance artist and engineer Taccola, and published an imagined conversation between himself and the Renaissance artist in 2006. Fane was an apprentice to classical sculptor George Demetrios, going on to win a Rome Prize and work at the American Academy in Rome for three years; teach at the Rhode Island School of Design; and eventually move to New York in 1966, where he began sculpting his signature forms and taught at Queens College for many years. A solo show of his work is currently running at New York's Zabriskie Gallery until January 17.