He was a musical maverick whose Trout Mask Replica still sticks out on best-of lists, but when he gave up rock to paint, his art was dismissed as doodles. Now his remarkable work is getting its due.

Don Van Vliet, an artist of protean creativity who was known as Captain Beefheart during his days as an influential rock musician and who later led a reclusive life as a painter, died Friday.

Don Van Vliet to Paul Moyer ... While it’s hard to imagine how anyone put up with this lifestyle for the sake of art, generations of listeners will be forever grateful that they did.

Don Van Vliet, who became a rock legend as Captain ... Van Vliet retired from performing to devote himself wholeheartedly to painting and drawing. Like his music, Van Vliet’s lush paintings ...

Don't you think that somebody like Stravinsky ... influenced by the desert landscape of his youth. Though the paintings sold well, Van Vliet withdrew from public life. In 1983, fans caught ...

with his some of his paintings fetching between $20,000 and $50,000. An American original, Don Van Vliet put his distinctive stamp on everything he created, especially his own bizarre persona.

The singer-songwriter — who befriended the pioneering art-rock bluesman, whose real name was Don Van Vliet, late in his life — recited a poem he wrote for her in 2001 titled “Man Can’t ...

Don Van Vliet died in 2010, after a years-long battle with multiple sclerosis. He was 69. Nine years before his death, Van Vliet wrote “Man Can’t Anticipate Cat,” a poem about PJ Harvey’s ...

That’s the conundrum at the core of this handsomely appointed art box set. After all, the subject is Don Van Vliet, who once exploded blues and rock idioms as rock surrealist Captain Beefheart.

Musician and artist Don Van Vliet, who performed a complex brand of experimental rock under the name Captain Beefheart, died Friday. He was 69. The Michael Werner Gallery in New York confirmed Van ...

Avant-garde rock legend and visual artist Don Van Vliet, who performed under the name Captain Beefheart, began experimenting with eccentric rock’n'roll sounds in the mid-1960s. His first two releases ...

You may know him as Captain Beefheart, but Don Van Vliet has had a remarkable second ... take their neo-primitive inspiration from cave paintings and the artist's native California desert.