Overview

• Fitzpatrick had been hospitalized for weeks after a diagnosis of interstitial lung disease and was awaiting a double lung transplant while on continuous oxygen.
• In the days before his death, he released The Sun at the End of the Road and remotely opened a new exhibition, Songbirds and Crucifixions, at Great Lakes Tattoo.
• A planned Steppenwolf Theatre stage adaptation of his new book was postponed due to his illness.
• His work is held by the Art Institute of Chicago, MoMA and the Met, and he designed Steppenwolf’s 2021 mural honoring Martha Lavey, a legacy the theater’s leadership praised.
• He is survived by his wife, Michele, and their adult children, Max and Gaby, with funeral arrangements not yet announced in initial reports.