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Birth
1939 (Riga, Latvia)
Death
Lived/Active
California
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post real waterscape painting, pop still life, galaxies
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Vija Celmins is a California painter who experimented with photo-realism and explored graphite as an expressive medium.
She
was born in Riga, Latvia in 1938, and in 1944 moved with her family to
Germany where they settled in a Latvian refugee camp near Esslinger.
The Celmins family then immigrated to the United States in 1948 and
made their home in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Vija studied at the
John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis, and often made trips to New
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