HERBERT PALMER, LOS ANGELES ART DEALER, DIES AT NINETY-ONE

Herbert Bearl Palmer, one of the first art dealers in Los Angeles to exhibit works by David Hockney, Bridget Riley, and other leading contemporary artists, starting in the mid-’60s, has died at the age of ninety-one, reports the Los Angeles Times‘ Mary Rourke. Palmer, who helped establish La Cienega Boulevard as an art district more than forty years ago, died at his home in Brentwood of natural causes. He got started in the gallery business when he partnered with Richard Feigen to launch Feigen/Palmer Gallery on La Cienega in 1963. Three years later, he established the Herbert Palmer Gallery at another location on the boulevard. “Herbert was very concerned about art, not so much about business,” said sculptor Vasa Mihich.