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Patricia Albers

Patricia Albers is a California-based writer, editor, and art historian. She is the author of Joan Mitchell, Lady Painter: A Life, the acclaimed first biography of the abstract painter. Her previous books include Shadows, Fire, Snow: The Life of Tina Modotti and Tina Modotti and the Mexican Renaissance. Albers’s essays, art reviews, and features have appeared in numerous museum catalogs and publications, including Squarecylinder, San Francisco Magazine, the San Jose Mercury News, and the New York Times. She has served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Humanities and a juror for the Biographers International Plutarch Award.

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