Tony Fitzpatrick, one of Chicago’s most celebrated multidisciplinary artists and a prominent advocate for the city itself, died Saturday of a heart attack. He was 66. According to family members, he was awaiting a double lung transplant and died at Rush University Medical Center.

Over several decades, Mr. Fitzpatrick was not just a prolific creator of mixed-media collages, drawings and paintings, he also was transformative as a gallery owner, poet, essayist, radio host, newspaper columnist, printmaker, and actor in film, television, and the stage. His greatest role was representing Chicago, primarily through his art, which he exhibited in the art world’s most prestigious institutions in North America, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the

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