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- ↑ Jules Heller; Nancy G. Heller (19 December 2013). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-63882-5.
- ↑ "Milton Brown - Dictionary of Art Historians" . Retrieved 28 January 2017.
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