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Barbara Chase-Riboud: I Always Knew, A Memoir

Sale price$39.95
I Always Knew is an intimate and vivid portrait of Chase-Riboud’s life as told through the letters she wrote to her mother, Vivian Mae, between 1957 and 1991. In candid detail, Chase-Riboud tells her mother about her life in Europe, her work as an artist, her romances, and her journeys around the world, from Western and Eastern Europe to the Middle East, Africa, the Soviet Union, China, and Mongolia.
  • Published: Oct 4, 2022
  • Pages: 480
  • Hardback
  • Size: 6.13 x 9.25 in.
  • Illus: 21 color + 74 b/w illus.
  • ISBN: 9780691234274
  • Princeton University Press 
Barbara Chase-Riboud: I Always Knew, A Memoir
Barbara Chase-Riboud: I Always Knew, A Memoir Sale price$39.95

Barbara Chase-Riboud

Over the course of her seven-decade career, Chase-Riboud has created a revolutionary body of work which is defined equally by its inventiveness, technical prowess and fearless engagement with transcultural histories.

Born in Philadelphia PA in 1939, Chase-Riboud currently resides between Paris and Rome. At a young age, she began taking art classes at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial. After graduating high school, Chase-Riboud studied at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art, where she received training in painting, drawing and sculpture.

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