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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Natalie Ascencios
is a painter, sculptor and marionette maker. She received her BA and BFA
at the New School for Social Research at Eugene Lang College and Parsons
The New School for Design. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The
New York Times Review of Books, Rolling Stone, Time, and many others.
Ascencios' paintings can also be seen in the various competitive annuals
of the Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, Communication
Arts and Print annuals. Collectors of her work include Sean Penn, Oprah
Winfrey, director Jim Sheridan, CBS Studios, and the Jewish Repertory
Theatre. Ascencios is noted as the creator of two paintings depicting
the literati of the 1920s. One, depicting members of the Algonquin Round
Table is on permanent display at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City
and the other at the Brown Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky.
