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Estelle Grey

Estelle Grey Ashby (1911-1994) moved to New York City as a young woman to pursue fashion design, studying at the Traphagen School of Fashion. She met her future husband, Carl Ashby, while both were students at the Art Students League of New York, and they married in 1938. Ashby worked as a fashion designer throughout her career. Her work and papers, along with her husband's, are preserved in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, the Whitney...

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Estelle Grey

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Fernando Cucci

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Fernando Ferreira de Araujo

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Frank Piatek

Frank Piatek (1944-2026) developed a distinctive artistic voice outside dominant movements such as Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism. Working across painting, sculpture, collage, and installation, his work explored spirituality, cultural memory, mythology, and the relationship between abstraction and representation. A graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Piatek exhibited widely, including at the Whitney Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. His work is held in numerous museum collections, and he received...

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