(born 1935), U.S. painter, graphic artist, sculptor, and poet, born in Cincinnati, Ohio; emerged during pop art period as innovative creator of works combining painted canvas with ordinary objects of daily life; studied at Boston Museum of Fine Arts School and at Ohio Univ.; early work consists primarily of images on canvas to which 3-dimensional objects are attached; reputation secured during 1960s by his wittily incongruous painted images of tools, clothes, and other common objects; focused more on graphic media in 1970s; illustrated or coauthored several books.