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- ↑ "Teapot | LACMA Collections". collections.lacma.org.
- ↑ Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Lynn, Martha Drexler (1990). Clay Today: Contemporary Ceramists and Their Work : a Catalogue of the Howard and Gwen Laurie Smits Collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The Museum. ISBN 978-0-87701-756-1.
- ↑ "Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art - NEHMA | Artists Index". artmuseum.usu.edu.
- ↑ "Virginia Cartwright | Smithsonian American Art Museum". americanart.si.edu.
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