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Ethel Magafan
Ethel Magafan
Ethel Magafan

Ethel Magafan

born Chicago, Illinois, 1916; died Woodstock, New York, 1993
BiographyPainter, printmaker; active: New York; teacher: Boardman Robinson. WPA muralist. Twin sister of Jean Magafan. See book "Independent Spirits" (ND225.153 1995).
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