Nancy Graves

Nancy Graves was an American sculptor, painter, printmaker, and sometime filmmaker known for her focus on natural phenomena like camels or maps of the Moon. Her works are included in many public collections, including those of the National Gallery of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Gallery of Australia (Canberra), the Des Moines Art Center, Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), and the Museum of Fine Arts. When Graves was just 29, she was given a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. At the time she was the youngest artist, and fifth woman to achieve this honor.

23 December 1939

Born on the same birth day (23 December): Anna J. Harrison • Brad Lidge • Carla Bruni • Charan Singh • Esther Phillips • Finn Wolfhard • Günther Schifter • Hiro Fujiwara • Jess Harnell • John Albert I • Joseph Smith • Karyn Bryant • Manuel Rivera-Ortiz • Owen Franks • Paul Hornung • Rick Wohlhuter • Stephen Timoshenko • Tianqi Emperor • Vadim Sharifijanov

Born in the same month (December 1939): Ann Cryer • Barry Cunliffe • Ed Bruce • Frank McLintock • Fred Schepisi • Ghulam Ahmad Bilour • Glenda Adams • Harry Reid • Joan Brady (American-British writer) • John Paul Sr. (racing driver) • Kim Weston • Pedro Jirón • Wafic Saïd