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I was born in Mississippi, and went to public schools in Mississippi and Tennessee until I was ten, when my parents settled in the small town in North Carolina where my mother was born, and where her mother and sister lived. As soon as I was 21, I took a train to New York to seek my fortune. I’ve lived in New York City full or part time ever since, except for two years in Boston at graduate school.
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I planned to make my living writing novels. (The two books I’d most liked to have written are Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960, and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, 1813.) But after I arrived in New York, economic reality caught up with me, and I wrote about art and finance, because that’s what I could get into print.
I’ve written articles for American Artist, Art and Auction, Print Quarterly, Journal of the Print World, Print Collectors’ Newsletter, The Tamarind Papers, and Works on Paper. I’ve served on the Print Committees of The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum, and The Whitney Museum. I’m a member of the Editorial Board of Print Quarterly, and an Honorary Keeper of American Prints at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University. I’ve been President of the New York City Art Commission, and Vice Chairman of the New York State Council on the Arts. |
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