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- PEOPLE, Page 83Old Master
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- By MICHAEL QUINN
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- 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.'"
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