Linda Plotkin
American artist (born 1938)
Linda Plotkin (born 1938) is an American printmaker. Her work is included in the collections of the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
in 2022, Plotkin's work was included "HOME/STUDIO: 2022 Penn State School of Visual Arts Faculty Show," as part of the 50th anniversary of the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q55219625. VIAF identifies the subject as 293360228. The Library of Congress control number is no99084302. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1938 and 2022.
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