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): Avraham Stern • Chet Baker • Gertrude Bancroft • Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa • Helmut Schmidt • Jean-François Champollion • John Albert I • José Greco • Karl Richard Lepsius • Kenny Miller • Michele Alboreto • Morgan (singer) • Otis Grant • Sebastian Werle • Tianqi Emperor

Born in the same month (December 1939): Akong Rinpoche • Ann Cryer • Bob James (musician) • Cindy Birdsong • Dariush Mehrjui • Dave Clark (musician) • Felix Pappalardi • Fred Schepisi • Gordon Miller (athlete) • James Booker • James Galway • Joan Brady (American-British writer) • John Amos • John Paul Sr. (racing driver) • Phil Spector • Philip Anschutz • Soko Richardson • Thomas McGuane • Tom Hayden • Wafic Saïd • Yael Dayan