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{SPEAKER name="Carolyn Carr"}
The movie stars. The singers. She said, "Two of the political figures were taken seriously, one was Indira Gandhi, and the other was Margaret Thatcher, who she said was represented as a building."
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And so I have to go and find that Time Magazine cover of Thatcher and see what it really looks like.
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Then she said the other category, of course, is the wife of, the wife of the president, the wife of the general, you know, whatever.
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She had not forgotten her roots when she came to talk about this painting. But the first thing she said in the talk was, "I did not want this to happen."
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{SPEAKER name="Carolyn Carr"}
I can guess, and that is if you have ever been to Alice Neel's studio, she had lots of large plants sitting.
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She lived on the upper west side of New York, sort of near Spanish Harlem. I think she just filled it in with the plants behind her.
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One of her great paintings is of her daughter-in-law, called Nancy in the Rubber Tree, so I think that's where this comes from. She had a great sense of color.
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