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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.
(1915 – 2000) 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. Ms. Admiral was born in Oregon and studied at the Art ...
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.
Strauss had grown up in Virginia, in a culture that venerated Southern military heroes of the "War Between the States", but a tour he took in summer 1918 to the devastated battlefields of Château-Thierry and Belleau Wood disabused him of any romantic illusions about the glory of warfare.
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.
