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Pat Steir Biography
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1940 |
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Born Iris Patricia Sukoneck in Newark, NJ
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1956 - 1958 |
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Studied graphic art at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
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1958 - 1960 |
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Attended Boston University, Boston, MA
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1962 |
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BFA, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
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1966 - 1970 |
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Art Director, Harper & Row Publishing Company, New York, NY
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1970 - 1973 |
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Instructor at Parsons School of Design, New York, NY; Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; Hunter College, New York, NY
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1973 |
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Recipient, Individual Artist's Grant, National Endowment for the Arts
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1974 |
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Recipient, Individual Artist's Grant, National Endowment for the Arts
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1973 - 1975 |
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Instructor at California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
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1976 |
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Recipient, Grant for Art in Public Institutions, National Endowment for the Arts
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1975 - 1978 |
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Founding board member of Printed Matter, New York, NY
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1982 |
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Recipient, Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
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1991 |
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Recipient, Honorary Doctorate of Fine Art, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
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1992 |
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Honored by the American Woman's Economic Development Corporation with their Salute to Women in the Business of Art
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2001 |
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Recipient, Distinguished Alumni Award, Boston University School for the Arts, Boston, MA
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Lives and works in New York, NY and Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2011
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Another Nearly Endless Line, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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2011
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The Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ
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2011
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Cheim & Read, New York, NY (solo)
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2010
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Ochi Fine Art, Ketchum, ID (solo)
Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris, France (solo)
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY (solo)
Pat Steir: Water & Stone, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH (solo)
Pat Steir: Drawing Out of Line, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (solo)
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2009
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Paintings on Painting, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
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2008
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Pat Steir: Recent Prints, Pace Prints, New York, NY (solo)
Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ (solo)
Pat Steir: Prints and Paintings, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH (solo)
Expansion – Résonance, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris, France
Pretty Ugly, Maccarone Gallery, New York, NY
Paintings' Edge, Parks Exhibition Center at Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA
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2007
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Cheim & Read, New York, NY (solo)
Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland (solo)
Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, FL (solo)
Audacity in Art: Selected Works from Central Florida Collections, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Solos: 20th Anniversary Exhibitions: Part Two, Ringling Museum of Art, Selby Gallery, Sarasota, FL
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2006
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Pat Steir: Gravity and Levity, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO (solo)
Small Paintings from the Studio of Pat Steir, Kiang Gallery, Atlanta, GA (solo)
High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1965 – 75, Independent Curators International, New York, NY
Women Only! In Their Studios, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
Gray to Black, Danese Gallery, New York, NY
The 181th Annual, National Academy, New York, NY
At Home: Recent Acquisitions, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
Twice Drawn, Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
More And Less: Post-Minimal Prints and Drawings, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Moons and Mirages, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
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2005
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Pat Steir: New Paintings, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX (solo)
Alessandro Bonomo, Rome, Italy (solo)
Cheim & Read, New York, NY (solo)
Pat Steir: Drawings, Cook Fine Art, New York, NY (solo)
Pace Prints Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
25 years Baumgartner Gallery Part 2, Baumgartner Gallery, New York, NY
BLOOMING: A Summer Garden for the Picking, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Paint, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
Graphics by 20th Century Masters From the Cochran Collection, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV
Contemporary Woman Artists, University Art Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN
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2004
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Intimate Collaboration: Twenty Five Years of Teaberry Press, Samek Art Gallery, Lewisburg, PA
Twelve From Cheim & Read, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Abstractions, Cook Fine Art, New York, NY
Presence, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
New Additions: Prints For An American Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Contemporary Art And Furniture Design In Dialogue, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY
Pièce Unique, FIAC 2004, Paris, France
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2003
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The Invisible Thread: Buddhist Spirit in Contemporary Art Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Snug Harbor, NY
Breathless, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
Roads Taken: 20th Century Prints and Drawings From The Collection, University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA
Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Simple Marks, Cheim & Read, New York, NY
Larger Than Life, Woman Artists Making it Big, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
Lewitt’s Lewitt’s, Collection of Carol and Sol Lewitt, New Britain, CT
Galleria Nationale Moderne Borghese, Rome, Italy (solo)
Hand – Painted Monotypes, Pace Prints Gallery, New York, NY
Pat Steir: The Rhythm of Silence, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Pat Steir: Waterfall Paintings, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
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2002
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Zenroxy, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
Sky River Group, Kiang Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Wall Street Rising – Art Downtown, New York, NY
The Sea, the sea..., Glenn Horowitz Bookseller at Art Upstairs (with Graham Leader), East Hampton, NY
New York Renaissance: Masterworks of the Whitney Collection, Palazzo Reale, Rome, Italy
Modernism & Abstraction: Treasures from the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
Looking East: Brice Marden, Michael Mazur, Pat Steir, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
University Art Museum, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO (solo)
Cheim & Read, New York, NY (solo)
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2001
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Contemporary Arts Museum, Honolulu, HI (solo)
Madison Art Center, Madison, WI (solo)
Waterfall Des Reves, Piece Unique, Paris, France (solo)
Sweet Suite, Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA (solo)
Distant Horizon, Galleria Bonomo, Bari, Italy (solo)
Pat Steir: Recent Prints, Sherman Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA (solo)
University Art Museum, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (solo)
Some Paintings, Bill Jensen, Harriet Korman, Beatriz Milhazes, Stephen Mueller, Pat Steir, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Liquid Propeties, Cheim & Read, New York, NY
The First 10 Years: Selected Works from the Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Modernism & Abstraction: Treasures from the Smithsonian’s American Art, Washington, DC
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2000
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Pat Steir and Betty Woodman: A Conversation, Art Resources Transfer (ART), New York, NY
Bill Jensen, Barry Le Va, Pat Steir: New York, Danese Gallery, New York, NY
Leigh and Mary Block Art Museum, Northwestern Univ, Chicago, IL (solo)
Lyman Allyn Museum of Art at Connecticut College, New London, CT (solo)
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA (solo)
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH (solo)
Selby Gallery, Ringling School, Sarasota, FL (solo)
Chase Bank Installation, MA College of Art, Boston, MA (solo)
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
Norton Museum, Sarasota, FL (solo)
United States Chancery, Moscow, Russia, Permanent installation of five panels in the Grand Entrance Embassy Suites Hotel, Battery Park City, New York, Permanent installation of two large scale wall drawings for the Public Art Fund (solo)
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1999
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Harley Baldwin, Aspen, CO (solo)
Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Albright – Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (solo)
Piece Unique, Paris, France (solo)
Double – Sided Painting, Piece Unique, Paris, France (solo)
5 Easy Pieces, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC (solo)
Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY (solo)
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1998
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Long Island City, NY wall painting installation curated by Klaus Biesenbach (solo)
New Work Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, DC (solo)
Recent Paintings, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
Likity Split, installation, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo)
Ghost Moon, Mountain Water, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY (solo)
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1997
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Pat Steir: Waves and Waterfalls 1982-1992, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (solo)
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1996
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Pat Steir: Paintings 1985-1995, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (solo)
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1994
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From Beyond the Pale: Pat Steir: A Painting Project, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (solo)
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1993
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Pat Steir, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY (solo)
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1992
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Centre National d'art Contemporain de Grenoble, France
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1990
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Paintings, USF Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
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1989
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Pat Steir: Neue Wasserfallbilder, TransArt Exhibitions, Cologne, Germany (solo)
Pat Steir Prints 1976 - 1988, Cabinet des estampes, Musée d'art et d'Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
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1987 - 1988
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Drawing Now: Pat Steir, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (solo)
Pat Steir: Paintings and Drawings, Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland (solo)
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1987
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Pat Steir: Paintings, 1981-84, Rijkmuseum Vincent Van Gogh, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
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1986
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Concentrations 14: Pat Steir, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (solo)
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI
University Gallery of Fine Art, Columbus, OH
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1985
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Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
New Drawings, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Pat Steir Prints / Printmaking, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Pat Steir, The Breughel Series (A Vanitas Of Style), The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (solo)
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1983
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Arbitrary Order: Paintings by Pat Steir, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (solo)
Form Illusion Myth: 'The Prints and Drawings of Pat Steir, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (solo)
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1979
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Galerie Farideh Cadot, Paris, France
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1977
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Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
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1971
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Graham Gallery, New York, NY
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1969
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Bienville Gallery, New Orleans, LA
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1964
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Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, NY
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| Selected Public Collections |
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Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
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Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
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Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
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Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
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Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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Albright – Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
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The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
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The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
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The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
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Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH
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Dallas Museum of Fine Art, Dallas, TX
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The Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT
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The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC
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The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
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| Literature |
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2007
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von Drathen, Doris. Pat Steir: Paintings. Milan: Charta, 2007.
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1995
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McEvilley, Thomas . Pat Steir. New York: Abrams Books, 1995.
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