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Melissa Miller (American, 1951)
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Melissa Miller
Fossil 1998
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Biography |
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1951 |
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Born in Houston, TX |
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1969 - 1971 |
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Attended University of Texas, Austin, TX |
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1971 |
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Museum of Fine Arts School, Houston, TX |
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1974 |
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B.F.A., University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM |
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1974 |
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Yale Summer School of Music and Art, New Haven, CT |
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1974 |
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Full Scholarship, Yale Summer School of Music and Art |
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1979 |
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National Endowment for the Arts |
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1982 |
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National Endowment for the Arts |
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1982 |
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Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund, Dallas Museum of Art |
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1985 |
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National Endowment for the Arts |
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1987 |
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1987 Texas Art Award |
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1999 |
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Legend Award, Dallas Visual Arts Center |
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The artist currently lives and works in Austin, TX |
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Public Collections 3M Company, Austin, TX
Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
American Airlines, Dallas, TX
AMOCA, Houston, TX
ARCO, Dallas, TX
Chase Manhattan Art Collection, New York, NY
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
First National Bank, Chicago, IL
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Interfirst Bank, Houston, TX
Modern Museum of Art, Fort Worth, TX
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
The Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Payne Webber, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Texas Tech University |
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Exhibitions |
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2008 |
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“Recent Acquisitions”, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas |
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2008 |
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“Faculty Exhibition”, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX |
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2008 |
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“Melissa Miller: Texas Artist of the Year Exhibition”, Art League Houston, Houston, TX (solo) |
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2007 |
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“Melissa Miller: Works on Paper”, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX (solo) |
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2007 |
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“Everything”, Dunn & Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas |
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2007 |
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“Measured Strokes, Spontaneous Beasts, Paintings by Sarah Canright and Melissa Miller””, Sarofim School of Fine Arts, Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas |
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2006 |
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“Texas 100: Selections from the El Paso Museum of Art”, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas |
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2006 |
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“Flatbed in Marfa”, 124 El Paso Street (Julie Speed’s studio), Marfa, Texas |
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2006 |
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“Fresh Ink, Flatbed Editions”, Nancy Scanlin Gallery, Austin, TX |
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2006 |
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Melissa Miller: Works on Paper, Nave Museum, Victoria, TX (solo) |
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2006 |
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Bestiary: A Juried Group Exhibition, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR |
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2005 |
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Land, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas |
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2005 |
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the Water’s Edge, Austin Museum of Art - Laguna Gloria, Austin, TX |
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2005 |
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Melissa Miller: Recent Works on Paper, The Ellen Noel Art Museum, Odessa, TX (solo) |
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2004 |
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Melissa Miller- New Paintings, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL (solo) |
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2004 |
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Bestiary: Works on Paper by Melissa Miller, Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, VA (solo) |
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2004 |
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A Beastiary: Works on Paper by Melissa Miller, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS (solo) |
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2004 |
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5th Anniversary Exhibition, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX |
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2004 |
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Perspectives @ 25: A Quarter-Century of New Art in Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX |
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2004 |
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Press: Texas Grit, William Cempbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, TX |
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2004 |
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Mythmakers and Storytellers, Nancy Scanlin Gallery, Helms Fine Arts Center, Austin, TX |
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2004 |
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Texas Paint, Part One: More True Stories, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX |
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2004 |
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Texas Vision, The Barrett Collection, The Meadows Museum, Dallas, TX |
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2004 |
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21/30 Artistas Graficas de Texas, Galleria del Instutio de Artes Plasticas de la Universidad Veracruzana, Veracruz, Mexico |
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2004 |
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B-side: Studio & Design Faculty Show, 2004, Creative Research Lab, Austin, TX |
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2003 |
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Flip, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX |
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2003 |
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New Paintings, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX (solo) |
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2003 |
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New Paintings, Betty Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas (solo) |
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2002 |
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Next, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX |
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2002 |
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Re: Vision Five Women Re- Vision, The University of Texas at San Antonio Art Gallery, San Antonio, TX |
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2002 |
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Groundwork, Recent Work by Faculty in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin, Creative Research Laboratory, Austin, TX |
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2002 |
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Wild Life: The Other Tradition, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL (catalog) |
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2001 |
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Melissa W. Miller, St. Edwards University, Fine Arts Gallery, Austin, TX (solo) |
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1999 |
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Melissa W. Miller, St. Edwards University, Fine Arts Gallery, Austin, TX (solo) |
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1995 |
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Melissa Miller: Paintings 1986-1995, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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1995 |
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Texas Gallery, Houston, TX (catalog) |
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1991 |
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Miller: The Artist’s Eye, Kimball Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (solo) |
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1990 |
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Paintings, Georgia State University Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA |
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1989 |
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Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT |
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1986 |
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX |
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1986 |
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Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (solo) |
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1985 |
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“Fresh Paint”, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX |
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1985 |
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“Women of the American West”, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT |
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1985 |
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“Private Treasures - Public View”, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX |
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1985 |
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“Jungle Fever”, The Harcus Gallery, Boston, MA |
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1985 |
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“Texas Currents”, San Antonio Art Institute, San Antonio, TX |
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1984 |
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“New Directions for the Michener Collection”, Archer Huntington Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, TX |
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1984 |
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“Five Texans in Venice”, University of Texas, San Antonio, San Antonio, TX |
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1984 |
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“Paradise Lost/Paradise Regained”, The Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy |
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1984 |
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“El Arte Narrativo”, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico |
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1984 |
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“Biennial III”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA |
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1984 |
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“10 Years Later: An Exhibition of Yale-Norfolk Alumni and Faculty”, Art Barn Gallery |
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1984 |
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“Bunnies”, White Columns, New York, NY |
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1984 |
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“Four Texas Painters”, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL |
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1983 |
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“New Figurative Drawing in Texas”, San Antonio Art Institute, San Antonio, TX |
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1983 |
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“1983 Biennial Exhibition”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
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1983 |
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“The End of the World: Contemporary Visions of the Apocalypse”, The New Museum, New York, NY |
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Literature |
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2007 |
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Kalil, Susie, Melissa Miller, University of Texas Press, 2007. |
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2006 |
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Lloyd, Jennifer, “Small and Strong,” Victoria Advocate, June 9, p. 9E |
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2004 |
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Smit, Johnathan. “Melissa Miller’s Animal Kingdom,” Texas Co-op Power, July, 2004, pp. 6-11. |
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2004 |
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Cohen, Rebecca S. “Melissa Miller” ARTL!ES, Fall 2004. P. 16-17 |
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2004 |
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Ennis, Michael. “Texas Fusion.” ARTL!ES. Summer 2004, Number 43, pp 16 & 18 |
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2004 |
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Johnson, Patricia C. “Perspectives @ 25' is all about changes.” . October 23, 2004, pp. E3, E9. |
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2003 |
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Chavarria, Albert Jesus. “Melissa Miller: Recent Work The Galveston Arts Center and Moody Gallery,” ARTLIES, Winter 2002-2003. p. 80. |
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2003 |
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Johnson, Patricia C. “Works Worth Seeing,” Houston Chronicle, February 27, 2003. p. 13 F. |
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2003 |
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Duncan, Michael. “Melissa Miller at Moody,” Art in America, December 2003. p. 114. |
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2003 |
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Kutner, Janet. “A Wild Kingdom,” The Dallas Morning News, October 2002. |
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2002 |
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“Art,” The Dallas Morning News, October 2002. |
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