Anne d'Harnoncourt, 64

Anne d'Harnoncourt, 64, the formidable, high-spirited personification of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and an indefatigable advocate for the arts as central to the city's identity, died Sunday night.

She died at her Center City home of an apparent stroke after a surgical procedure, said Art Museum chairman H.F. "Gerry" Lenfest.

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