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Vija Celmins

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Vija Celmins ( VEE-yə SEL-məns; Latvian: Vija Celmiņa; Latvian pronunciation: [ˈvija ˈt̪͡s̪ɛlmiɲa]; born October 25, 1938) is a Latvian American visual artist best known for photo-realistic paintings and drawings of natural environments and phenomena such as the ocean, spider webs, star fields, and rocks. Her earlier work included pop sculptures and monochromatic representational paintings. Based in New York City, she has been the subject of over forty solo exhibitions since 1965, and major retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London and the Centre Pompidou, Paris. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vija Celmins is the 1,809th most popular painter (up from 1,922nd in 2019), the 159th most popular biography from Latvia (up from 185th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Latvian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Vija Celmins ranks 1,809 out of 2,023. Before her are Lawrence Weiner, L. S. Lowry, Emil Filla, Albert Paris Gütersloh, Jean Broc, and Ivan Argunov. After her are Konstantin Yuon, Louis Meijer, Suzanne Duchamp, Josefine Swoboda, Victor Chizhikov, and Blanka Teleki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Vija Celmins ranks 444. Before her are Janet Reno, Wiesław Maniak, Roberto Anzolin, Péter Bakonyi, Eppie Wietzes, and Emilio Trivini. After her are Anita Thallaug, Haruhiro Yamashita, Duane Eddy, Natalya Krachkovskaya, Richard Benjamin, and Carlos Monsiváis.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Vija Celmins ranks 159 out of 323. Before her are Kārlis Skalbe (1879), Hermanis Matisons (1894), Fridrikh Ermler (1898), Andris Nelsons (1978), Mikhail Nikolayevich Zadornov (1948), and Oswald Schmiedeberg (1838). After her are Regīna Ezera (1930), Rutanya Alda (1942), Imants Ziedonis (1933), Ursula Donath (1931), Alfrēds Kalniņš (1879), and Dainis Kūla (1959).

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Among PAINTERS In Latvia

Among painters born in Latvia, Vija Celmins ranks 5. Before her are Mark Rothko (1903), Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz (1824), Vilhelms Purvītis (1872), and Janis Rozentāls (1866).

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