Painter Of Hiroshima’s Desolation Dies At 94

Iri Maruki, a painter widely acclaimed in Japan for his poignant renderings of the desolation left by the atomic bombing of his hometown of Hiroshima, died Thursday. He was 94.

Maruki died of a stroke at his home in Higashi-Matsuyama.

Maruki visited Hiroshima shortly after the U.S. bombing in 1945, which killed many of his relatives.

In 1950, he and his wife, Toshi, began his most famous work - a series of 15 panels called “Hiroshima Murals.” It took the couple seven years to complete the panels.