The most high-profile artists, such as the great abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko or Simpsons creator Matt Groening, have tended to move on and live their career-defining creative moments elsewhere.
Far from America’s entertainment capitols, this is arguably a place where talents are nurtured, not where one becomes a full-fledged star. Portland and Oregon haven’t traditionally produced a lot of bold-type names that have endured in the international pop zeitgeist. Robbed of the futures we imagined for them, yet frozen in time and thus never to suffer the indignities of aging or late-career artistic mediocrity, their luminosity-and our love for them-intensifies as if in proportion to the tragedy.
From James Dean to Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain to Heath Ledger, we have immortalized a constellation of famous artists-especially musicians and actors-who died young and, then, through a combination of their talent and the public’s grief, lived on.
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