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Virginia Holton Admiral or Virginia De Niro (February 4, 1915 – July 27, 2000) was an American painter, poet and the mother of actor Robert De Niro. She studied painting under Hans Hofmann in New York, and her work was included in the Peggy Guggenheim collection.
Born in Oregon in 1915, Virginia Admiral was an American painter, poet, independent publisher and activist whose body of work straddled the fields of abstract and figurative art. Admiral settled in San Francisco, California in the 1930s, after studying painting at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Aug 15, 2000 · Virginia Admiral, an American painter and writer who studied with Hans Hofmann, died on July 27. She was 85 and lived in New York City.
Virginia Holton Admiral or Virginia De Niro (February 4, 1915 – July 27, 2000) was an American painter, poet and the mother of actor Robert De Niro. She studied painting under Hans Hofmann in New York, and her work was included in the Peggy Guggenheim collection.
At Hofmann's summer school, he met fellow student Virginia Admiral, whom he married in 1942. The couple moved into a large, airy loft in New York's Greenwich Village, where they were able to paint.
Virginia Admiral was a painter, poet and activist who studied under Hans Hofmann and married Robert De Niro. The papers contain biographical information, correspondence, writings and exhibition records.
Franklin Buchanan (September 17, 1800 – May 11, 1874) was an officer in the United States Navy who became the only full admiral in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. He also commanded the ironclad CSS Virginia.
