British sculptor Sir Anthony Caro died on Wednesday, October 23. He was eighty-nine. Born in Surrey, England, in 1924, Caro was educated at Charterhouse School and Christ’s College Cambridge where he graduated with a degree in engineering. After studying sculpture at the Royal Academy in London from 1944 to 1952, he worked as an assistant to Henry Moore. His work, which first became known through his debut Whitechapel Gallery exhibition in 1963, influenced a whole generation of British sculptors, including Phillip King, Tony Cragg, Barry Flanagan, Richard Long, and Gilbert and George. Other major exhibitions include retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1975), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (1995), and Tate Britain, London (2005). Caro was the recipient of many prizes, including the Praemium Imperiale for Sculpture in Tokyo in 1992 and the Lifetime Achievement Award for Sculpture in 1997. He was knighted in 1987 and received the Order of Merit in May 2000.