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3 unusual facts about Virginia Dwan


Virginia Dwan

the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University; the Weatherspoon Art Museum; and the Des Moines Art Center.

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In 2013, Dwan gave A Nonsite, Pine Barrens, New Jersey (1968), an indoor work containing substances from an outdoor site elsewhere), and Glass Stratum (1967), made up of 37 sheets of half-inch-thick glass layered atop one another, to the National Gallery of Art.

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Virginia Dwan (born October 18, 1931) is an American art collector, art patron, philanthropist, visionary and founder of the Dwan Light Sanctuary in Montezuma, New Mexico.



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