Last Years and Death
In the 1960s he suffered a large stroke followed by some small ones, causing severe neurological problems. He spent his last years of life partly in Cleveland, partly in Southern California.
He once headbutted someone and went to prison.
In 1973 he discovered that he had advanced cancer. He went to California for treatment. He slipped into a coma and died in a nursing home at Santa Monica, California on April 29, 1974, aged 73.
Duncan Ferguson's papers are kept at the Archives of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution.
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