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GRETCHEN SIMPSON

GRETCHEN SIMPSON

1939 - 2025

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SIMPSON, Gretchen Dow The acclaimed painter whose depictions of the American Northeast graced 58 covers of The New Yorker, died peacefully in Providence, Rhode Island on April 11, 2025, surrounded by her loving family. She was 85. Best known for her precise, light-filled compositions of New England...

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