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Ellen Phelan

Ellen Denise Phelan (Born 1943) is active/lives in New York, Michigan.  Ellen Phelan is known for Mod dolls, flowers, landscape.

Ellen Phelan was born in 1943 and spent her childhood in Detroit, Michigan. Her mother was a nurse and her father was a real estate salesman. She considered herself a misfit, she was a talented child who drew and painted with facility, and she also played the violin and sang well enough to consider a career in music. In 1961 Phelan entered Wayne State University in Detroit eventually earning a Bachelor of Arts degree, a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and a Master of Fine Arts degree.

One of her first teaching jobs was at the California Institute of the Arts, in the late 1970s. A more recent one was as professor of Studio Arts in the Visual and Environmental Studies department at Harvard University.

In 1978 she married sculptor Joel Shapiro. They spend five months of the year in the Adirondack Mountains and the remaining months in New York City. They describe their relationship in terms of professional respect as well as personal affection.

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