1. Mira Edgerly-Korzybska, known as Myra Edgerly and Countess de Korzybska, was an American painter.
13 Facts About Mira Edgerly-Korzybska
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Mira Edgerly-Korzybska specialized in miniature portraits on ivory, though her "miniatures" tended to be larger than average.
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Mira Edgerly-Korzybska's father was the director of the Michigan Central Railroad.
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Mira Edgerly-Korzybska became friends with Gertrude Stein, who wrote about her as "Myra Edgerly" in The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas:.
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Mira Edgerly-Korzybska had come to London as a miniaturist and she had had one of those phenomenal successes that americans do have in Europe.
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Mira Edgerly-Korzybska had miniatured everybody, and the royal family, and she had maintained her earnest gay careless outspoken San Francisco way through it all.
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Mira Edgerly-Korzybska now came to Paris to study a little.
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Mira Edgerly-Korzybska met Mildred Aldrich and became very devoted to her.
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Mira Edgerly-Korzybska knew John Lane slightly and she said Gertrude Stein and I must go to London.
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Mira Edgerly-Korzybska had an exhibition at the women-only Colony Club in New York in 1915.
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Mira Edgerly-Korzybska then moved to Chicago, where the Institute of General Semantics was located.
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From 1943, Mira Edgerly-Korzybska experienced arthritis which prevented her from painting.
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Mira Edgerly-Korzybska was cremated and buried next to her husband in Lime Rock, Connecticut.