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- <text id=92TT1074>
- <title>
- May 18, 1992: Old Master
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- May 18, 1992 Roger Keith Coleman:Due to Die
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 83
- Old Master
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By MICHAEL QUINN
- </p>
- <p> She is an 82-year-old grandmother from Kansas who turned
- to art late in life, but one look at ELIZABETH LAYTON'S
- drawings, and no one would be tempted to call her "Grandma
- Layton." Her self-portraits reflect such contemporary curses as
- homelessness, AIDS and racism. Layton is now the focus of a
- one-woman show at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum
- of American Art. She credits her artwork with ending a 30-year
- struggle with depression. "If I don't get a chance to draw for
- a while, I get cranky and my husband says, `Go draw a picture.'"
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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