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About The Artist: Louise Nevelson

Born Louise Berliawsky in Kiev, Russia in 1899, she moved as a small child to Rockland, Maine with her family. At age twenty she married Charles Nevelson and moved to New York. She later left her family to pursue her art, heading to Germany to become a student of Hans Hofmann. She also worked as an assistant to Diego Rivera. In the 1940’s, Nevelson began collecting wood objects of all types and putting them together in unusual and...