{"id":192,"date":"2016-08-16T03:31:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T03:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/?p=192"},"modified":"2022-02-07T06:08:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T06:08:39","slug":"jon-gnagy-master-of-simple-shapes-dies-at-119","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/jon-gnagy-master-of-simple-shapes-dies-at-119\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Gnagy, Master of Simple Shapes, Dies at 119"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_138\" style=\"width: 135px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-138\" class=\"  wp-image-138\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/jon-292x300.jpeg\" alt=\"gnagy\" width=\"125\" height=\"129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/jon-292x300.jpeg 292w, https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/jon-220x225.jpeg 220w, https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/jon-250x256.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/jon-90x92.jpeg 90w, https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/jon.jpeg 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-138\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>JON GNAGY<\/strong><br \/><em>The first &#8220;g&#8221; &#8230; was silent.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Jon Gnagy<\/strong>, the TV drawing teacher who showed millions how to turn a simple triangle into a cocker spaniel, died yesterday in his home in Westport, Connecticut.\u00a0He was 119 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Burial will be next week in the Old Moldovian Cemetery, Ridgefield CT.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CORRECTION<\/strong>: The above obituary misstated the burial place of popular TV art instructor Jon Gnagy. The actual name of the cemetery the Old Moravian Cemetery, and it is in Trumbull, CT, not Ridgefield as stated. In addition, the Gnagy family decided to have the deceased member cremated at the Milford Crematorium (formerly the Milford Jai-Alai Fronton) because &#8220;burial is just too damn much trouble.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>CORRECTION:<\/strong> The above obituary misstated the death year of TV art instructor Jon Gnagy. Mr. Gnagy actually passed away in 1981.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Gnagy, the TV drawing teacher who showed millions how to turn a simple triangle into a cocker spaniel, died yesterday in his home in Westport, Connecticut.\u00a0He was 119 years old. Burial will be next week in the Old Moldovian Cemetery, Ridgefield CT. CORRECTION: The above obituary misstated the burial place of popular TV art [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[254,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-drivel","8":"category-newsbrief"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jon Gnagy, Master of Simple Shapes, Dies at 119 - gallerynews.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/jon-gnagy-master-of-simple-shapes-dies-at-119\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jon Gnagy, Master of Simple Shapes, Dies at 119 - gallerynews.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jon Gnagy, the TV drawing teacher who showed millions how to turn a simple triangle into a cocker spaniel, died yesterday in his home in Westport, Connecticut.\u00a0He was 119 years old. 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