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When I found out after that first successful exhibition that the gallery wanted me to do another show like the first one, I come out two years later with four 6-foot drawings of classical nudes masturbating. The gallery director flipped the freak out!

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Betty Dodson
Age: 91 †
Born: 1929
Born: August 24
Died: 2020
Died: October 31
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