Christopher Knight reports that painter John McCracken died in New York on April 8, 2011 at age 76. McCracken's work achieved a synthesis of painting and sculpture that could, simultaneously, be considered a singular achievement in either medium. "'My tendency,' John McCracken once said, 'is to reduce or develop everything to 'single things' – things which refer to nothing outside [themselves], but which at the same time possibly refer, or relate, to everything.' "