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Schapiro, Miriam, 1923-2015

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Personal name headingSchapiro, Miriam, 1923-2015
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Variant(s)Schapiro, Mimi, 1923-2015
Associated countryUnited States
LocatedFlatbush (New York, N.Y.)
Birth date1923-11-15
Death date2015-06-20
Place of birthToronto (Ont.)
Place of deathHampton Bays (N.Y.)
Field of activityFeminism in art
AffiliationCalifornia Institute of the Arts
University of California, San Diego
Profession or occupationArtists Art teachers College teachers
Found inGarver, T. H. Paul Brach ... 1969.
Miriam Schapiro, 2004: t.p. (Miriam Schapiro) p. 5 (b. 1923 in Toronto, Canada)
Information from 678 converted Dec. 18, 2014 (teaches at Univ. of California, San Diego)
New York times WWW site, viewed June 25, 2015 (in obituary published June 24: Miriam Schapiro; known as Mimi; b. Nov. 15, 1923, Toronto; grew up in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn; d. Saturday [June 20, 2015], Hampton Bays, N.Y., aged 91; pioneering feminist artist who, with Judy Chicago, created the landmark installation "Womanhouse" in Los Angeles in the early 1970s and later in that decade helped found the Pattern and Decoration movement)