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Yeffe kimball biography of rory
Yeffe Kimball
Painter from Oklahoma, U.S.
Yeffe Kimball, born Effie Violetta Goodman, (March 30, 1906[1]– April 11, 1978) was an American artist known for her abstract modernist work with Native American and space exploration subjects.[2] Kimball created work under an assumed Osage Indian identity, rising to prominence after her admittance of the painting Sacred Buffalo into the Philbrook Museum of Art's first Indian Annual in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1946.[3]
Biography
Born Effie Violetta Goodman to white parents, Oather Alvis Goodman and Martha Clementine Smith on March 30, 1906, her residence in 1910 was Rayville, Missouri.[1][4] Kimball claimed to have been born in 1914 in Mountain Park, Oklahoma.
Kimball was the fourth of at least nine children.[1]
Kimball's last name is the result of her first annulled marriage, which likely enabled her to erase her previous identity. Kimball cited a fabricated background