Clover Vail | |
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Born | 1939 (age 84–85) [1] Lausanne, Switzerland |
Nationality | American |
Clover Vail (born 1939) is an American artist. [1] Vail received a MacDowell fellowship in 1989. [2] In 2004 Vail received a $25,000 grant from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation. [3]
Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, [1] the Metropolitan Museum of Art [4] and the Cleveland Museum of Art. [5]
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