Article: Obituaries. (Art World).(Brief Article)(Obituary)

Livingston Biddle, Jr., 83, former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, died May 4 in Washington, D.C. He helped draft the arts endowment legislation from 1963 to '65 while working for his Iongtime friend Sen. Claiborne Pell. He served briefly as deputy to the NEA's first chairman, Roger Stevens, before holding various positions in arts management. In the '70s, he served as congressional liaison for the NEA and director of a Senate subcommittee on education, arts and humanities. He was named chairman of the NEA in 1977 by Jimmy Carter, and during his four-year term managed to save the agency from many of the cuts proposed by the Reagan administration.

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