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Charles Joseph Roitz, a former faculty member of the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado Boulder, died Dec. 5, 2012, of complications from liver cancer. He was 77. He was born Feb. 3, 1935, in Trinidad, Colo., to Adele Picco Roitz and John Stanislaus Roitz. After attending Holy Trinity Catholic [...]

Garrison Roots likened great art to a “near accident” in a car: You are driving, attention drifting, when something darts in front of the car; you hit the brakes and are “snapped back” to consciousness.