Editing Chuck Close (section)

{{Short description|American painter (1940–2021)}}
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{{Infobox artist
| name          = Chuck Close
| image         = Chuck Close.jpg
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| caption       = Close in 2009
| birth_name    = Charles Thomas Close
| birth_date    = {{Birth date|1940|07|05}}
| birth_place   = [[Monroe, Washington]], U.S.
| death_date    = {{Death date and age|2021|08|19|1940|07|05}}
| death_place   = [[Oceanside, New York]], U.S.
| field         = [[Photorealistic]] painter, photographer
| training      = [[University of Washington]] (BA, 1962)<br/> [[Yale University]] (MFA)
}}

'''Charles Thomas Close''' (July 5, 1940 – August 19, 2021) was an American painter, visual artist, and photographer who made massive-scale [[photorealism|photorealist]] and abstract portraits of himself and others. Close also created photo portraits using a very large format camera. He adapted his painting style and working methods in 1988, after being paralyzed by an occlusion of the [[anterior spinal artery]].