Editing Dan Flavin (section)

== Personal life ==
In 1961, he married his first wife Sonja Severdija, an art history student at [[New York University]] and assistant office manager at the Museum of Modern Art.<ref>[http://www.diacenter.org/exhibs_b/flavin-exhib/ diacenter.org] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070406192416/http://www.diacenter.org/exhibs_b/flavin-exhib/|date=April 6, 2007}} accessed August 25, 2007</ref> The couple had one son, Stephen Flavin. The first marriage ended in divorce by 1979.<ref name="nytimes.com" /> Flavin's twin brother, David, died in 1962.<ref name="nytimes.com">{{Cite news|last=Smith|first=Roberta|author-link=Roberta Smith|date=December 4, 1996|title=Dan Flavin, 63, Sculptor Of Fluorescent Light, Dies|page=Section D, Page 25|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/04/arts/dan-flavin-63-sculptor-of-fluorescent-light-dies.html|access-date=January 30, 2021}}</ref>

Flavin married his second wife, the artist [[Tracy Harris]], in a ceremony at the [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum|Guggenheim Museum]], in 1992.<ref>''The New York Times'', June 26, 1992. Abstract available at [https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10612FE3B5C0C758EDDAF0894DA494D81&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fPeople%2fF%2fFlavin%2c%20Dan nytimes.com]{{Dead link|date=August 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

Flavin died in [[Riverhead, New York]], of complications from [[diabetes]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/04/arts/dan-flavin-63-sculptor-of-fluorescent-light-dies.html|title=Dan Flavin, 63, Sculptor Of Fluorescent Light, Dies|first=Roberta|last=Smith|newspaper=The New York Times |date=December 4, 1996}}</ref> A memorial for him was held at [[Dia Art Foundation]] on January 23, 1997. Speakers included Brydon Smith, curator of 20th-century art at the [[National Gallery of Canada]], Ottawa; Fariha Friedrich, a Dia Art Foundation trustee; and Michael Venezia, an artist.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/23/arts/dan-flavin-memorial.html Dan Flavin Memorial] ''[[The New York Times]]'', January 23, 1997.</ref>