About Margit Varga
Lived 1908 – 2005 (aged 96). Margit Varga was an American painter.
Biography Margit Varga was born on May 5, 1908, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, to parents from Hungary. She studied art at the National Academy of Design; and at the Art Students League of New York, under Boardman Johnson and Robert Laurent.
Varga established the Painters' and Sculptors' Gallery at 22 East 11th Street in Manhattan in 1932. The gallery showed emerging artists for the next 3 years.
Varga died on April 8, 2005, in Naples, Florida. the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Gilcrease Museum.
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Who was Margit Varga?
American artist (1908–2005)
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Margit Varga was born on 5 May 1908 in New York City.
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Margit Varga died on 8 April 2005 in Budapest.
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Margit Varga was a painter.
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Margit Varga was American.
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