About Mavis Iona Pusey

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    "Mavis Pusey, Under-the-Radar Abstract Artist, Is Dead at 90," Obituary, The New York Times online, April 30, 2019, by Neil Genzlinger.

    She favored bold geometric forms, especially in works inspired by urban construction and
    Mavis Pusey, a painter and printmaker who drew on inspirations as varied as sunsets and scenes of urban demolition to create striking abstract works full of geometric forms, died on April 20 in Falmouth, Va. She was 90.

    Hallie Ringle, curator of contemporary art at the Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama, who has been working on a traveling exhibition of Ms. Pusey’s work, confirmed her death and said she had dementia.

    Ms. Pusey was a leading abstractionist who, while living in New York, m...

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