'Cosby Show' artist Honeywood dies in LA at 59

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Source: AP, via Yahoo News

Varnette Honeywood, an artist whose paintings adorned the walls of the set of "The Cosby Show" and whose strikingly colorful images depicted tender moments in black family life, has died. She was 59.

Honeywood died Sunday in a Los Angeles hospital after a two-year battle with cancer, one of her cousins, Jennell Allen, said Tuesday.

Raised in Los Angeles, Honeywood earned a master's degree from the University of Southern California and worked at the Joint Educational Project, teaching art to minority students.

As a young artist in the 1970s, Honeywood began reproducing her bold acrylic paintings on greeting cards. It was these that caught the eye of Bill Cosby's wife, Camille, and the couple started collecting her work and met Honeywood soon after.



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Ms. Honeywood also contributed to the drawings for "Little Bill" - a show of which both my daughters are fond. She will be missed.