MANHATTAN, NY.- Abstract painter Michael Goldberg, 83, died in Manhattan. He was a second generation Abstract Expressionist painter. He was born in 1924 in New York City. He studied at the Art Students League, 1938-1942, but his studies were interrupted by World War II. He later studied with Jose de Creeft and Hans Hofmann as a teacher. His work was influenced by Hofmann, with whom he studied for two years, and by Matta and Arshile Gorky. But it was Willem de Kooning who influenced him the most.

Michael Goldberg's work is in the collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Baltimore Museum of Art; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia; De Cordova and Dana Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, among others.