It was last December when Jackie Saccoccio died of cancer. The abstract painter, a star in the New York art world, was 56.

She and her husband, sculptor Carl D’Alvia had been furiously working on a modern, black house they were building in West Cornwall, Conn.

This post first appeared on wsj.com

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