early 70s. The boys, Angus, Jesse and Duncan then moved to NYC to live with their father. His middle son, Jesse, died in Sag Harbor in 1998. In 1996, Chamberlain married art executive Prudence Fairweather, Dan Flavin's former assistant. In 2000, he built a 72-by-82-foot studio on Shelter Island. In her memoirs, Warhol superstar Ultra Violet claims that during the 1960s she and Chamberlain shared a romantic relationship which ended when first he crashed her car, then when told that she had become pregnant by him he responded, “That’s your problem”. Recognition John Chamberlain received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in both 1966 and 1977. 1990: Member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York 1993: Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture by the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine 1993: Lifetime Achievement Award in Contemporary Sculpture from the International Sculpture Center, Hamilton, NJ 1997: The National Arts Club Artists Award, New York 1999: Distinction in Sculpture Honor from the Sculpture Center, New York. 2006: Elected into the National Academy of Design 2010: Doctor of Fine Arts, honoris causa, from the College for Creative Studies, Detroit Filmography "Wide Point" (1968) "The Secret Life of Hernando Cortez" (1968) "Black Cherry No-Cal" (1971) References Further reading Busch, Julia M., "A Decade of Sculpture: the New Media in the 1960s" (The Art Alliance Press: Philadelphia; Associated University Presses: London, 1974) Getsy, David J. "Immoderate Couplings: Transformations and Genders in John Chamberlain's work," chapter 2 of Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender, (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015), 96-145. LINK TO PDF External links 1927 births 2011 deaths Abstract expressionist artists Sculptors from Indiana Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni Black Mountain College alumni People from Rochester, Indiana United States Navy personnel of World War II