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1921 Born Chicago, Illinois

1936-41 Studied architecture with Mies van der Rohe at Armour Institute of
Technology (later Illiniois Institute of Technology)

1941-45 United States Army Air Force

1945 Returned to architecture studies at IIT

1946 Studied at Accademia de Belle Arte, Florence, Italy

1947-56 Lived in Paris

1947 Studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris

1949 Acted in Jean Cocteau’s film Orphée

1950 Married Claude Souvrain, Paris (divorced 1956)

1956 Returned to New York City

1961 Married Cary Ogle

1962 Son David born

1963 Daughter Nina born

1964-65 Lived in Paris

1965 Returned to New York City

1970-81 Lived in Millbrook, New York

1981-86 Lived in East Hampton, New York

1986 Moved to Vermont

1999 Died at home in East Wallingford, Vermont, on February 3
Norman Bluhm in his Vermont Studio, 1998