Brad Holland, 81, dies; his subversive art reinvented illustration

His stark and stunning work for Playboy, The New York Times and Manhattan’s underground papers heralded a new era of conceptual illustration

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Brad Holland, an idiosyncratic artist who upended American illustration in the 1970s with his startling imagery for Playboy magazine and The New York Times’s opinion page, spawning a generation of imitators, died on March 27 in Manhattan. He was 81.

His brother, Thomas Holland, said he died in a hospital from complications of heart surgery.

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