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Turn: The Journal of an Artist

by Anne Truitt · 1986

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The second journal of an artist by "an extraordinary woman: sensitive, intelligent, perceptive"—Doris Grumbach.

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biographybiographyMore like thisLess of this
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artartMore like thisLess of thiscreativitycreativityMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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medium · 214 pages

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