• ARTIST
• Famous for her trademark polka dots, her work includes sculpture, fashion, performance art, film, and more
• Won several international awards
• Her early work served as a foundation for the pop and minimalist art movements, influencing other famous artists of the time such as Andy Warhol
• Fell into obscurity for about thirty years, until a resurgence of interest in the 2000s
• Set the sales RECORD for art by a living female artist when one of her pieces sold for $5.1 million in 2008
• Some of the world's most prestigious museums, such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Tate Modern museum in London, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, have had major exhibitions of her work
• At 86 years old, she was voted the MOST POPULAR artist in the world

Bibliography: Doyle, Caitlin. Girls Can Do Anything: From Sports to Innovation, Art to Politics, Meet Over 200 Women Who Got There First. Buffalo: Firefly Books, 2016. Print.

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