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Mundy Hepburn

American artist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ6935916 ↗
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Mundy Hepburn is an American artist who designs and builds glass sculptures filled with luminous electrified inert gases—the same technology used in neon signs. Hepburn developed many of the glass and lighting techniques he uses in his sculptures himself.

Hepburn lives in Old Saybrook, Connecticut. He is the nephew of actress Katharine Hepburn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mundy Hepburn” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.