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- Birth nameMarjorie Virginia Strider
- Marjorie Strider was born on January 26, 1931 in Guthrie, Oklahoma, USA. She was married to Michael Kirby. She died on August 27, 2014 in Saugerties, New York, USA.
- SpouseMichael Kirby(1960 - 1969) (divorced)
- Marjorie Strider is related by marriage to writer / actress Michele Strider.
- Is the Aunt of producer Linda Rattner Kelly.
- Her father was a cement contractor, and her mother was a secretary at an Air Force base who also led local campaigns to improve literacy.
- She attended the Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri and Oklahoma State University. She designed shoe-store window displays before moving to New York in 1957.
- She was among the first wave of New York pop artists which emerged in the 1960s. She had grown bored of making flat paintings, and began adding things like cardboard and wood to the surface to make them more sculptural. In the 1970s, she worked with urethane foam, creating huge, sinuous installations that seemed to flow out of building windows or down staircases.
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